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...Dick Hughes, 30, formerly a Boston drama teacher and a friend of Actor Jon Voight, went to Viet Nam in 1968 simply to discover for himself what was going on. Five years later, he runs seven houses of refuge for orphaned Vietnamese boys (five in Saigon and two in Danang). "You have to understand that these boys have nothing," Hughes says. "In Viet Nam, one's career, even one's personal identity, is sublimated to the family. When you lose your family, you lose everything." During the past five years, almost 1,000 boys have stayed at Hughes...
...doesn't have anything new to say (thank God) about the lack of morality in brute nature. Still, its pro-civilization sentiments are refreshing, its recreation of a moral vacuum in Georgia backlands terrifying, and its pure adventure sequences on the Cahulawassee. River among the best action filmed. John Voight turns in a fine star performance as a symp turned strongman...
Still, Deliverance would not have worked as the Stepped-down film which Boorman fashioned were it not for the performance of Jon Voight as Ed. is the film's rock of common sense: his reactions give the film a base on which its audience can stand. Voight's eyes and stance manage to express naivite, moral and physical shock, the hard intent of a man who must reach a pinpointed goal, and the penance of a killer reawakened to humanity. Without him, the swagger of an uncontrolled Burt Reynolds as the uncontrollable Lewis, and the inordinate weakness in Ronny...
Much of the effect of the movie rests finally on Jon Voight's Ed. Initially withdrawn and uncertain, the characterization takes on strength and clarity as Ed becomes more crucial to the story. Voight captures Ed's turmoil, his spiritual and physical agonies, in a way that confirms his standing as one of our finest young actors...
...Voight's performance also crystallizes the most dubious aspect of the movie. Is Ed really any more of a man for enduring and surviving as he does...