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...putdowns, mostly of himself ("My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave"). After that, Reynolds was invited to air his gift of glib on a flock of other talk shows and comedy hours. After seeing him on the tube, Director John Boorman asked him to read for a leading part in the movie version of James Dickey's Deliverance. Boorman found his "power and vulnerability" perfect...
Directed by JOHN BOORMAN Screenplay by JAMES DICKEY...
...film that John Boorman has fashioned from James Dickey's novel is a magnificent visual experience and an assault on the senses fully as brutal as the river trip. Boorman (Point Blank, Hell in the Pacific) has made the river and the woods characters in themselves...
...script by Boorman and Dickey (who does nicely in the role of a small town sheriff) strays occasionally on the side of overemphasis. But an unrelenting pulse of suspense propels the film over these obstacles...
...Here, as in Sam Peckinpah's recent Straw Dogs - another, artistically less successful movie about a test - the director's prodigious skill cannot conceal a rather shabby and cynical intellectual construct. In Deliver ance, man must become one with na ture in order to survive. But for Boorman and Dickey, becoming one apparently means becoming bestial. Deliverance comes not through a knowledge of nature's most primitive and powerful forces but through a capitulation to them...