Deliverance


11:50 pm - 01:35 am, Monday, February 9 on BBC Two England (2)

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Four city friends look forward to a weekend canoeing trip in America's Deep South. However, their adventure turns into a nightmare when menacing rednecks come down from the nearby hills and subject them to a shocking assault, forcing the men to take extreme action to save their lives. John Boorman's thriller based on James Dickey's novel, with Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty and Bill McKinney


1972 HD subtitles 16x9 audio-description
Literary Adaptation Movie/Drama Thriller

Cast & Crew

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Burt Reynolds (Actor) .. Lewis Medlock
Jon Voight (Actor) .. Ed Gentry
Ronny Cox (Actor) .. Drew Ballinger
Ned Beatty (Actor) .. Bobby Trippe
Bill McKinney (Actor) .. Mountain Man
Herbert `Cowboy" Coward (Actor) .. Toothless Man
James Dickey (Actor) .. Sheriff Bullard
Ed Ramey (Actor) .. Old man
Billy Redden (Actor) .. Lonny
Kathy Rickman (Actor) .. Nurse Lilley
John Boorman (Director)

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Did You Know..

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Burt Reynolds (Actor) .. Lewis Medlock
Born: February 11, 1936 in Lansing, Michigan
Best Known For: The Smokey and the Bandit movies
Early-life: Burton Leon Reynolds Jr was born in Lansing, Michigan, on February 11, 1936. He moved to Florida as a youngster, where he excelled in various sports and athletics, most notably American football. He attended Florida State University and won a place on the All Star Southern Conference team. His promising future as a sporting star was shattered by a knee injury and a car accident. Halfway through his college education, Reynolds dropped out and moved to New York where he tackled odd jobs until his acting career took off.
Career: Reynolds found fame with TV series Gunsmoke and Hawk. In 1972 he became a movie star thanks to the acclaimed thriller Deliverance, while 1977's Smokey and the Bandit gave him wider appeal. He has since worked continuously with differing amounts of success on features such as The Cannonball Run, Sharky's Machine, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Striptease, as well as his own brainchild, the sitcom Evening Shade. However, it was his turn as porn mogul Jack Horner in Boogie Nights that revived his fortunes and bagged him his only Oscar nomination to date. More recently, he's appeared in The Dukes of Hazzard and alongside Adam Sandler in a remake of his own 1974 hit The Longest Yard.
Quote: On working with young directors: "Having done 300 television shows and almost 60 movies, I'm tired of having guys who are younger than some sandwiches I've had, telling me to turn left at the couch."
Trivia: Reynolds played himself in the video game Saints Row: The Third.
Jon Voight (Actor) .. Ed Gentry
Born: December 29, 1938 in New York
Best Known For: Being Angelina Jolie's dad
Early-life: Born Jonathan Vincent Voight on December 29, 1938, in Yonkers, New York. His father, Elmer, was a professional golfer. He has two brothers: James (better known as Chip Taylor) is a successful songwriter who penned Wild Thing, while Barry is a volcanologist. Voight began treading the boards at school, after which he studied drama at the Catholic University of America. He also had a four-year stint at the Neighbourhood Playhouse's prestigious acting academy in New York.
Career: Voight's professional career began on stage with a role in a Broadway production of The Sound of Music. He made his TV debut in a 1963 episode of Naked City and four years later appeared in Fearless Frank, his first film. He became a star in 1969 thanks to an Oscar-nominated performance in Midnight Cowboy. A series of well-received movies followed, such as Catch-22, Deliverance and The Odessa File. He won a Best Actor Academy Award for 1978's Coming Home. Major films since include Table for Five, The Champ, Heat, Mission: Impossible, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Ali and The Manchurian Candidate. He played Jonas Hodges, the main antagonist of Jack Bauer, in the seventh season of American drama 24. More recently, he has starred in Ray Donovan.
Quote: "I'm grateful for my celebrity. It allows me to focus on organisations that do good."
Trivia: He has won Golden Globes for Midnight Cowboy, Coming Home, Runaway Train and Ray Donovan.
Ronny Cox (Actor) .. Drew Ballinger
Ned Beatty (Actor) .. Bobby Trippe
Bill McKinney (Actor) .. Mountain Man
Herbert `Cowboy" Coward (Actor) .. Toothless Man
James Dickey (Actor) .. Sheriff Bullard
Ed Ramey (Actor) .. Old man
Billy Redden (Actor) .. Lonny
Kathy Rickman (Actor) .. Nurse Lilley
John Boorman (Director)

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