Deliverance
Quick Summary
The 1972 film Deliverance, starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voigt, significantly impacted the perception of Southern mountain people. It portrayed them as violent degenerates, influencing national views of rural life and ushering in a horror subgenre featuring deranged hillbillies. The film's title, "Deliverance," can also refer to salvation or rescue from danger or evil, or a verdict or decision reached after consideration.12
Ask Britannica AI about this topic
Britannica doesn't have a full article on this topic, so we've curated a list of our relevant coverage.
Burt Reynolds…Cox in the hit movie Deliverance, his breakthrough role. However, a spread in the magazine Cosmopolitan that same year arguably brought him even greater fame. Helen Gurley Brown, the magazine’s publisher, was seeking a man willing to pose nude to demonstrate that women were as interested in looking at men…
Read More…Cox in the hit movie Deliverance, his breakthrough role. However, a spread in the magazine Cosmopolitan that same year arguably brought him even greater fame. Helen Gurley Brown, the magazine’s publisher, was seeking a man willing to pose nude to demonstrate that women were as interested in looking at men…
Read More
Jon Voight…fight for his life in Deliverance (1972), and he portrayed the writer Pat Conroy in the film memoir Conrack (1974). Voight followed a lead role in the conventional thriller The Odessa File (1974) with a moving portrayal of a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran in the drama Coming Home (1978) that…
Read More…fight for his life in Deliverance (1972), and he portrayed the writer Pat Conroy in the film memoir Conrack (1974). Voight followed a lead role in the conventional thriller The Odessa File (1974) with a moving portrayal of a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran in the drama Coming Home (1978) that…
Read More