Deliverance

whoops, make that "britches"! Oink!

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<hr>The music is good <hr></blockquote> Every time we head out to the fens Mr Ria starts doing the banjo music :-)

"bridges" is phonetically correct for the movie though

The banjo was played by Eric Weissberg based on an old Don Reno tune called Feudin' Banjo. Weissberg called his "Duelling Banjos" even though there's only one banjo. He didn't know they were going to have an actor portraying a mentally retarded inbred acting playing the banjo.
He used fairly sophisticated Scruggs-style bluegrass picking which isn't typical of Appalachian mountain playing at all. Nevertheless, that's what people now associate with inbred hillbillies. The power of movies.
Two of Don Reno's sons now have a group called Hayseed Dixie, playing at a festival near you this summer..

hth

It was produced by Joe Boyd, who used to run the legendary UFO club in Swinging London and discovered the Incredible String Band, Sandy Denny and Nick Drake.

It remains his most successful tune.

Splendid film, no doubt about it.

There is nothing really violent in it, it is implied, rather than shown. The duelling banjos scene is a classic. It doesn't age badly. Certainly worth a watch.

It is worthy seeing it; yes, it may be dated but still holds your attention with some suspense and very interesting character dynamics/interactions: city folks x hill billies, macho man (Burt Reynolds) x family man (Jon Voight), progress and culture x wilderness, and many other 1970s afflictions that still have some relevance today.

Buy it, it's probably cheap. Get Southern Comfort too if you can; similar style of film, equally good.

City Slickers with Billy Crystal is another great film dealing with similar subject matter.

I'd say it's a renter, definitely not something I'd want to own. I found it remarkably less shocking and frightening than I'd expected.