John Boorman produced and directed the 1972 survival thriller Deliverance, which starred Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, and Billy Redden. James Dickey turned his 1970 book of the same name into a screenplay. Five Golden Globe Award nominations and three Academy Award nominations were received for the box office and critical success of the movie.
The film, which has received a lot of praise and is considered a milestone, is famous for a music sequence that has a city man performing "Dueling Banjos" on the guitar with a farm lad who is strumming a banjo. Deliverance was chosen by the Library of Congress in 2008 to be preserved in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important."
The majority of Deliverance was filmed in Rabun County in northern Georgia. The Tallulah Gorge, southeast of Clayton, and the Chattooga River served as the locations for the canoe sequences. This river separates the northwest corner of South Carolina from the northeastern corner of Georgia. More sequences were filmed there in Salem, South Carolina.
Additionally, a scene was filmed at the graveyard of Mount Carmel Baptist Church. This location, which formerly stood on the line between the South Carolina counties of Oconee and Pickens, is now 130 feet (40 meters) under Lake Jocassee. The dam that is being built in the image is the Jocassee Dam.
