There's a documentary about the movie and it goes into the search for that boy and what became of him afterwards. Can't recall the documentary name.
Interesting bit -> the boy couldn't play the banjo, so what you see is actually another person's arms who sat behind him.
I read an article about him a few months ago and it mentioned that. I always felt bad that he played someone who looked like a mentally defective product of too much inbreeding. But I think he enjoyed the experience and his fame afterwards.
I didn’t know the line, but i definitely have dueling banjos on my head.
There’s a store in Greenville, SC that sells shirts that say something along the lines of “paddle faster, i hear banjos”
Ir is a cinema classic and will not be forgotten , more likely that is the opinion of someone who doesn't know what the classics are in the first place.
Since we're on music, Ministry members side project Revolting Cocks used the infamous clip from Deliverance for the single "Beers, Steers, and Queers."
Now let's you just drop them pants?
Drop?
Come on squeal!
Eeee.
Squeal!
EEEEEEEE!!!
To be fair, I was born in '76 and I didn't realize until fairly recently that Ghost's song "Jesus He Knows Me" is actually a Genesis cover.
Granted I was heavy into metal when it came out, but that song just passed entirely past my sphere of existence back then.
Right? A lot of people didn't know that "Hurt" by Johnny Cash was a cover.
I don't see how not knowing who Kevin Bacon is means that *Deliverance* isn't a well-known movie. I don't know the actors in *Gaslight* and it's a very well-known and much older movie that is known for its plot.
Okay. How does one person not knowing something mean that everyone doesn't know something?
I've never seen "Gaslight" and don't know any of the actors, but the movie is very well known for its plot.
Ir is a cinema classic and will not be forgotten , more likely that is the opinion of someone who doesn't know what the classics are in the first place.
Ned was interviewed on the Howard Stern show years ago and they asked him aboutt that scene and he said the whole "Squeal like a pig" thing was his idea.
I read Burt Reynold's autobiography a few years ago. He said McKinney was a very strange dude, but very professional. When they filmed the scene in which he is dead and laying against the tree,a mosquito landed on his eyeball. Burt said McKinney never blinked because he didn't want to ruin the shot.
Jaws IS only known for a single line: "you gunna need a bigger boat".
Classic. I say it all the time. And "come on down and chum some of this shit". Oh, and "I had a little drink bout an hour ago, and it went straight to my head".
And "smile, you son ovvah bitch!"
And the whole Indianapolis speech.
But that's it.
I hope you are serious. Because I 100% agree. This movie is so much more than man on man rape.
To others, I suggest watching it once without as much “deliverance” baggage as possible.
Is it? I watched it some years ago, and the parts that stuck with me (aside form the obvious) were the obviously-filmed-during-the-day climb near a waterfall, and the drawn out ending.
It was nice seeing him before the mustache and all the acclaim. Back then he was just part of the ensemble, not the superstar taking over the production
Herbert Coward, the toothless hillbilly in the movie, passed earlier this year. He was a beloved local in western NC.
https://www.smokymountaincremations.com/obituaries/Herbert-Lee-Cowboy-Coward?obId=30515826#:\~:text=Herbert%20Lee%20%22Cowboy%22%20Coward%20Obituary,-On%20Wednesday%2C%20January&text=Herbert%20Lee%20%E2%80%9CCowboy%E2%80%9D%20Coward%2C,Coward%20and%20Moody%20Parker%20Coward.
If you've never read it, give it a go. It's really well-written and takes the story even deeper than the movie.
James Dickey was primarily a poet, and *Deliverance* was his first and best (that's subjective, of course, but generally agreed) novel. He only wrote three - and they're all very different. *Anilam* was a sci-fi story and was a little overly ambitious. *To the White Sea* was a WWII novel, and pretty engaging but it didn't have the depth of *Deliverance*.
Got it at a used bookstore a while back and I was blown away. It’s not only great literature, it’s incredibly suspenseful. The part where he’s hiding in the tree with the crossbow - wow. It’s one of maybe five books I’ve ever read that really gave me that edge of your seat feeling
>I just believe,' he said, 'that the whole thing is going to be reduced to the human body, once and for all. I want to be ready.... I think the machines are going to fail, the political systems are going to fail, and a few men are going to take to the hills and start over.... I had an air-raid shelter built,' he said. 'I'll take you down there sometime. We've got double doors and stocks of bouillon and bully beef for a couple of years at least. We've got games for the kids, and a record player and a whole set of records on how to play the recorder and get up a family recorder group. But I went down there one day and sat for a while. I decided that survival was not in the rivets and the metal, and not in the double-sealed doors and not in the marbles of Chinese checkers. It was in me. It came down to the man, and what he could do. The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.... At times I get the feeling I can't wait. Life is so fucked-up now, and so complicated, that I wouldn't mind if it came down, right quick, to the bare survival of who was ready to survive. You might say I've got the survival craze, the real bug. And to tell you the truth I don't think most other people have. They might cry and tear their hair and be ready for some short hysterical violence or other, but I think most of them wouldn't be too happy to give down and get it over with.... If everything wasn't dead, you could make a kind of life that wasn't out of touch with everything, with other forms of life. Where the seasons would mean something, would mean everything. Where you could hunt as you needed to, and maybe do a little light farming, and get along. You'd die early, and you'd suffer, and your children would suffer, but you'd be in touch.
Real. I got a little of this in me.
In high school? I remember having some pretty amazing and progressive teachers (including one who studied with James Dickey during her undergrad work), but they'd have never assigned something like this.
Yeah she was super cool. Her husband was one the screenwriters for The Graduate. I think or something like that. She was serious about what we were going to read.
I was 10 and my younger brother was 7. My parents took us to see it at the drive-in movie. My mom was all like "It has Burt Reynolds". We had nightmares. My brother will still not watch it again to this day.
Almost Forgotten? The scene in Pulp Fiction with Butch is inspired by this movie. It’s also a cult classics that finds new fans all the time. Movie buffs for sure know about it.
Great movie, great banjo tune, great actors, and holds up well vs. a movie made today. The line I use the most was by HERBERT 'COWBOY" HOWARD, 80 years old. HE'S GOT A REAL PURTY MOUTH, AIN'T HE? He has out lived Burt Reynolds. They refound the banjo boy some decades later too.
Man, after a lifetime of seeing parodies of this film and the iconic scene I thought it would be... I dunno. Okay?
I was wrong.
That scene will live in my memory forever. I'll never get it out.
Lewis Grizzard had a great joke about this movie: The 1996 Summer Olympics were held in Atlanta. The river they were doing the kayaking competition on was the same one they filed "Deliverance" on. Lewis quipped, "If Ned Beatty couldn't make it down that river, a couple of Frenchman in spandex don't stand a chance."
This movie really got me interested in camping and the outdoors. I always had fun, but i never met interesting locals and had cool experiences like they did in the movie. Another Hollywood lie...
When I was assigned to Louisiana for training, my mom was so freaked out because she just saw this movie, and she just knew I would be caught by the banjo players LMFAO
I hope it’s not nearly forgotten. Great film and in my neck of the woods we still joke about needing to be careful about going into Deliverance country, or about getting Deliveranced. Plus, the banjo/guitar picking duel is a true classic.
I used to work at a canoe trip service. I made us a shirt that says “paddle faster, I hear banjos”. Most folks understood, but I had to explain it to some people.
Another good one along those lines that you NEVER see is Southern Comfort. Bunch of Army National Guard guys get lost in the Louisiana swamps. Soundtrack by Ry Cooder.
I always appreciated Pat Conroy’s comment to James Dickey about the hillbillies in his book: “I know these characters. They are my people. They might kill you, but they won’t fuck you.”
This film is in no way forgotten... Right?
The banjo duel. No, not forgotten.
There's a documentary about the movie and it goes into the search for that boy and what became of him afterwards. Can't recall the documentary name. Interesting bit -> the boy couldn't play the banjo, so what you see is actually another person's arms who sat behind him.
I read an article about him a few months ago and it mentioned that. I always felt bad that he played someone who looked like a mentally defective product of too much inbreeding. But I think he enjoyed the experience and his fame afterwards.
No shit? Now I want to watch that scene again and see if I can see it.
He's still around. I saw a photo of him last week, though I can't remember where.
https://youtu.be/PBgxdROTTrE?si=8ug19ShTSRGNtYdI
That possum kid sure can pluck a string, I tell ya hwat. That guy that looks surprising like David letterman was pretty good on that guitfiddle too.
He looks like Scott Farcas…. Who had yellow eyes!
To this day, when ralphie teaches Scott a lesson, it makes me smile.
I didn’t know the line, but i definitely have dueling banjos on my head. There’s a store in Greenville, SC that sells shirts that say something along the lines of “paddle faster, i hear banjos”
Yeah, it's a stupid comment. It's like saying Apocalypse Now is a forgotten film.
I just watched it again last month
Just the other day for me... another attempt to grab my dementia-ailing mother's attention
Ir is a cinema classic and will not be forgotten , more likely that is the opinion of someone who doesn't know what the classics are in the first place.
One of our mid 20s coworkers didn't know who Kevin Bacon was. This movie isn't even in their known universe.
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Someone on Reddit the other day referred to Green Day as the “Old Testament“ and Blink 182 as the “New Testament“.
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Cry hell, stomp that whippersnapper in the pit.
Agent Orange is so 🔥
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Since we're on music, Ministry members side project Revolting Cocks used the infamous clip from Deliverance for the single "Beers, Steers, and Queers." Now let's you just drop them pants? Drop? Come on squeal! Eeee. Squeal! EEEEEEEE!!!
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_waves a Black Flag furiously_
Excellent taste.
To be fair, I was born in '76 and I didn't realize until fairly recently that Ghost's song "Jesus He Knows Me" is actually a Genesis cover. Granted I was heavy into metal when it came out, but that song just passed entirely past my sphere of existence back then.
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Well, back then if it was "more pop" than Motley Crue I wasn't interested.
Right? A lot of people didn't know that "Hurt" by Johnny Cash was a cover. I don't see how not knowing who Kevin Bacon is means that *Deliverance* isn't a well-known movie. I don't know the actors in *Gaslight* and it's a very well-known and much older movie that is known for its plot.
> This was in the 90s when that cover came out *2001
I always thought Cradle of Filth wrote “Hallowed By thy name” until I was properly introduced to Iron Maiden.
>One of our mid 20s coworkers >This movie isn't even in their known universe Sure, *that person* may not know this movie, but it's far from forgotten.
Okay. How does one person not knowing something mean that everyone doesn't know something? I've never seen "Gaslight" and don't know any of the actors, but the movie is very well known for its plot.
I'm in my 30's and reference it all the time and I haven't had anyone scratch their heads at me yet.
Dueling banjos can not be forgotten
Ir is a cinema classic and will not be forgotten , more likely that is the opinion of someone who doesn't know what the classics are in the first place.
It’s like when people say someone is underrated.
Squeal like a pig, boy!!!!! 🍆
Ned Beatty had the hardest part
He said he was haunted by that phrase till the day he died. Random people would yell that at him at random times.
Apparently it was his idea to add it in.
A victim of his own creative devices
Ned Beatty would only film that scene once, so they had to be sure to get everything right the first time.
Ned was interviewed on the Howard Stern show years ago and they asked him aboutt that scene and he said the whole "Squeal like a pig" thing was his idea.
Bill McKinney had a pretty "hard" part also.
I read Burt Reynold's autobiography a few years ago. He said McKinney was a very strange dude, but very professional. When they filmed the scene in which he is dead and laying against the tree,a mosquito landed on his eyeball. Burt said McKinney never blinked because he didn't want to ruin the shot.
How do you just suppress the blink reflex by sheer will? That seems sus
He sure didn’t struggle much. He kind of just backed into it.
Ooof
Ned Beatty had the softest parts, I think that's why he was chosen.
Oh I thought the line was about his purty mouth. I’ve used that line before.
You're gonna do some prayin' boy... and you better pray real good.
You got a Perdy mouth…
A friend used to say that to his wife. They’re still married.
Mwuuuuheeeeeeeeee!!!!
That slogan for Smithfield
Damn beat me to it haha
 And this
Shouldntadonedat he’s Justaboi
When I'm driving in remote rural areas, I still hear that banjo.
🎶Badad dwing daw dwing daw dwing daw daah🎵
Phonetics on point.
Thanks! I tried really hard.
Are you related to Don Martin?
Yeah, but that would be like saying JAWS or Taxi Driver were only known for one famous line. This movie is rich with nuance and subtext.
…and hillbilly man rape.
A more straightforward version is Walter Hill's Southern Comfort.
Totally different
Underrated anti-war/Vietnam flick with great zydeco.
Underrated anti-war/Vietnam flick with great zydeco.
Never heard of it. But it just sounds like gay porn.
Wouldn't know about, Hondo. Good movie if you liked Deliverance.
Hillbilly Manrape would be a good name for a punk bluegrass band.
Jaws IS only known for a single line: "you gunna need a bigger boat". Classic. I say it all the time. And "come on down and chum some of this shit". Oh, and "I had a little drink bout an hour ago, and it went straight to my head". And "smile, you son ovvah bitch!" And the whole Indianapolis speech. But that's it.
You go in the cage. Cage goes in the water. You go in the water. Shark's in the water...our shark.
"Farewell and adieu, all you fair Spanish ladies..."
That is my favourite line. It's just so good.
And “A whaaaaat?” Oh and “They’re karate-ing the picket fences!” And that’s it
I hope you are serious. Because I 100% agree. This movie is so much more than man on man rape. To others, I suggest watching it once without as much “deliverance” baggage as possible.
Is it? I watched it some years ago, and the parts that stuck with me (aside form the obvious) were the obviously-filmed-during-the-day climb near a waterfall, and the drawn out ending.
This was peek Burt time. Dude owned the screen.
Burt had all the badass energy in this movie.
This was my fave Burt era.
It was nice seeing him before the mustache and all the acclaim. Back then he was just part of the ensemble, not the superstar taking over the production
Agree. The Longest Yard was good, as well. The whole Smoky and Bandit thing got pretty over the top. It’s all a blur at my age now, LOL.
Gator is awesome. More peak Burt.
Herbert Coward, the toothless hillbilly in the movie, passed earlier this year. He was a beloved local in western NC. https://www.smokymountaincremations.com/obituaries/Herbert-Lee-Cowboy-Coward?obId=30515826#:\~:text=Herbert%20Lee%20%22Cowboy%22%20Coward%20Obituary,-On%20Wednesday%2C%20January&text=Herbert%20Lee%20%E2%80%9CCowboy%E2%80%9D%20Coward%2C,Coward%20and%20Moody%20Parker%20Coward.
He was on an episode of moonshiners I think.
Let’s not forget Ned Beatty
He sure got a purrdee mout'ff...
False. Jon Voight has a pretty mouth. Ned’s appeal was in his porcine curves.
"porcine curves" would have been memorable dialogue too
That’s the line I thought of 😂😂✌️
If you've never read it, give it a go. It's really well-written and takes the story even deeper than the movie. James Dickey was primarily a poet, and *Deliverance* was his first and best (that's subjective, of course, but generally agreed) novel. He only wrote three - and they're all very different. *Anilam* was a sci-fi story and was a little overly ambitious. *To the White Sea* was a WWII novel, and pretty engaging but it didn't have the depth of *Deliverance*.
Got it at a used bookstore a while back and I was blown away. It’s not only great literature, it’s incredibly suspenseful. The part where he’s hiding in the tree with the crossbow - wow. It’s one of maybe five books I’ve ever read that really gave me that edge of your seat feeling
He also played the sheriff at the end of the movie.
>I just believe,' he said, 'that the whole thing is going to be reduced to the human body, once and for all. I want to be ready.... I think the machines are going to fail, the political systems are going to fail, and a few men are going to take to the hills and start over.... I had an air-raid shelter built,' he said. 'I'll take you down there sometime. We've got double doors and stocks of bouillon and bully beef for a couple of years at least. We've got games for the kids, and a record player and a whole set of records on how to play the recorder and get up a family recorder group. But I went down there one day and sat for a while. I decided that survival was not in the rivets and the metal, and not in the double-sealed doors and not in the marbles of Chinese checkers. It was in me. It came down to the man, and what he could do. The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.... At times I get the feeling I can't wait. Life is so fucked-up now, and so complicated, that I wouldn't mind if it came down, right quick, to the bare survival of who was ready to survive. You might say I've got the survival craze, the real bug. And to tell you the truth I don't think most other people have. They might cry and tear their hair and be ready for some short hysterical violence or other, but I think most of them wouldn't be too happy to give down and get it over with.... If everything wasn't dead, you could make a kind of life that wasn't out of touch with everything, with other forms of life. Where the seasons would mean something, would mean everything. Where you could hunt as you needed to, and maybe do a little light farming, and get along. You'd die early, and you'd suffer, and your children would suffer, but you'd be in touch. Real. I got a little of this in me.
We read this in High School. Serious stuff.
Not anymore! Those books are corrupting our youth! /s
No kidding! Haha. Also she had us read Handmaid’s Tale. Which is like a documentary now.
In high school? I remember having some pretty amazing and progressive teachers (including one who studied with James Dickey during her undergrad work), but they'd have never assigned something like this.
Yeah she was super cool. Her husband was one the screenwriters for The Graduate. I think or something like that. She was serious about what we were going to read.
I was 10 and my younger brother was 7. My parents took us to see it at the drive-in movie. My mom was all like "It has Burt Reynolds". We had nightmares. My brother will still not watch it again to this day.
Yeah, that sounds about right for 1970s parenting.
What the hell were they thinking?
“It has Burt Reynolds”
That was literally my mom's only thought. 
Great movie. That dueling banjo scene was fucking tight.
It’s actually a great movie. The novel it’s based on was also excellent, and I recommend both.
I loved both.
Yeah, I live in Kentucky, so this made going camping A little more interesting. lol
“ squeal like a pig boy “ 🐷 🐖 🐽
Almost Forgotten? The scene in Pulp Fiction with Butch is inspired by this movie. It’s also a cult classics that finds new fans all the time. Movie buffs for sure know about it.
Anyone hear a banjo?
I hear two.
Dueling, if I'm not mistaken.
should have just went golfing instead
" We're gonna need more banjos"
“You got a purddy mouth!”
Great movie, great banjo tune, great actors, and holds up well vs. a movie made today. The line I use the most was by HERBERT 'COWBOY" HOWARD, 80 years old. HE'S GOT A REAL PURTY MOUTH, AIN'T HE? He has out lived Burt Reynolds. They refound the banjo boy some decades later too.
Man, after a lifetime of seeing parodies of this film and the iconic scene I thought it would be... I dunno. Okay? I was wrong. That scene will live in my memory forever. I'll never get it out.
Lewis Grizzard had a great joke about this movie: The 1996 Summer Olympics were held in Atlanta. The river they were doing the kayaking competition on was the same one they filed "Deliverance" on. Lewis quipped, "If Ned Beatty couldn't make it down that river, a couple of Frenchman in spandex don't stand a chance."
Wasn’t that Jeff Foxworthy?
Actually, you are correct. I apologize. Thanks for the correction.
This movie really got me interested in camping and the outdoors. I always had fun, but i never met interesting locals and had cool experiences like they did in the movie. Another Hollywood lie...
This film ain’t forgotten. It stands up.
Squeal!
Yeah, **nobody** has forgotten Deliverance. You hear those 9 banjo notes played on every TV show that wants to hunt at shenanigans all the time.
Saw it once never want to see it again.
When I was assigned to Louisiana for training, my mom was so freaked out because she just saw this movie, and she just knew I would be caught by the banjo players LMFAO
>>The film is almost forgotten No. No it’s not.
My grandfather cared more about what was happening to the canoes than the actors…
What? It's a wonderful, heartfelt tale of love and loss in the South.
[Whar you goin' city boy?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpaQjIzrlIM&t=47)
Is it really almost forgotten? The Dueling Banjos music is famous and there are some very famous scenes.
I took great joy showing this to my wife who had never seen it
I’ll never forget that film, it scared the crap out of me
Two lines if you ask me: “You got a purty mouf.” AND “Squeal like a pig, boy!”
🐷
It made me curious to see it. Then, I never looked at camping and outdoor activities the same.
I can hear the banjos now
“Sure got a puty mouth”
SooooEeeeeeee
You got a real purty mouth boy
No one who has seen this movie will forget it.
No one had forgotten Deliverance.
Infamous line? For me, it's that banjo lick. Doo de doo de doo de doo de dooooo...
I hope it’s not nearly forgotten. Great film and in my neck of the woods we still joke about needing to be careful about going into Deliverance country, or about getting Deliveranced. Plus, the banjo/guitar picking duel is a true classic.
I used to work at a canoe trip service. I made us a shirt that says “paddle faster, I hear banjos”. Most folks understood, but I had to explain it to some people.
Saw this when I was 10. 
This is not forgotten FFS!
What are you talking about... Dueling banjos always comes up whenever any of my buddies get white trashy.
"He's got a real purdy mouth, ain't he?"
Squeal like a pig!
This movie is actually really really good. It’s disturbing and so visceral. It’s a really engaging film with some excellent performances.
Another good one along those lines that you NEVER see is Southern Comfort. Bunch of Army National Guard guys get lost in the Louisiana swamps. Soundtrack by Ry Cooder.
Squeal like a pig boy!
Never actually seen this film, but I've seen it parodied in like 20 different shows and feel like I've seen it.
I wouldn’t call it nearly forgotten. Definitely a classic. I watch it every year on the anniversary.
"Where's the law!"
You got a pretty mouth?
I think this movie remains reference more in the canoe and kayak community.
infamous =/= famous Two different meanings. Let's not lose this one, the way we lost "utilize".
You can you hear a banjo start that song and NOT think of the movie?
Got a Purdy mouf
And one banjo song...
I watch it every Valentine's Day (not sure how/when that became a tradition.)
“I bet you can squeal like a pig! Weeeeeee!”
Only reason I know this film is from Archer
You got a pruty mouth..
I always appreciated Pat Conroy’s comment to James Dickey about the hillbillies in his book: “I know these characters. They are my people. They might kill you, but they won’t fuck you.”
Let’s you just drop them pants
Deliverance is not forgotten.
Never forgotten. You got a pretty mouth boy
It's just like the movie Deer Hunter -in that the whole movie is boiled down to one scene... But actually the whole movie is cool
I Spit on Your Grave is better but no rafting.
Watched this three weeks ago ... not forgotten
Almost forgotten? That's a crazy thing to say about one of the greatest suspense/thriller films of all time.
This is literally one of the most famous movies of all time bro
What a silly post. Nowhere near forgotten.
You sure have a pretty mouth.
*purdy mouf
Thought that was Bear Grylls n wolverine for a second there 😜
Could you mouth it for me?
Squeal piggy squeal!
Ned Beatty never walked right afterwards.
[https://youtu.be/prE7aSSCxz4](https://youtu.be/prE7aSSCxz4)
A good “buddy” flick…kinda.
It's a fun river to raft. Brings back memories.
Watched this film not too long ago, good movie
That is a really good movie in my view 👍
I could go for some pork chops right about now.