Scott were all considered for parts that went to newcomers Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds. Nearly half the cast were local mountain people. It also set in motion four decades of film production in Georgia. Reynolds ultimately appeared in eight films made in the state. How did this start? James Dickey was born at Crawford Long hospital on February 2, Though he wanted to be a fighter pilot—and later said he was—Dickey was a flight navigator and weapons officer in World War II.
He became an advertising executive and celebrated poet before publishing his first novel, Deliverance , in He was the father in the armchair on Westminster [Circle], the half-rebellious son at Sunday dinners on West Wesley. He was lifting weights, still, in the carport, and cruising the Buckhead strip malls in the MGA sports car his mother bought him. He wanted to try everything. He lives in Sautee-Nacoochee. Dickey dedicated the book to me because I took him canoeing.
Doug Woodward , seventy-four, was a cofounder of Southeastern Expeditions guiding service and a technical adviser for the film. He lives in Franklin, North Carolina. From his memoir, Wherever Waters Flow : Dickey was an imposing figure of a man, and his presence filled the room.
But it was much more than physical. There was a mystique about him—of things hidden, perhaps ominous—that he enjoyed perpetuating. There were references to the canoe trip which he and King had taken years before. Dickey would not describe details of that canoe trip. King I had to go farther down the river to wait. I met a young guy and his father. We waited. I think Jim used that. Burt Reynolds , seventy-five, played Lewis Medlock in the film. He now lives in Jupiter, Florida.
Dickey was one of the great storytellers ever. Chris Dickey , sixty, was a stand-in. From Summer of Deliverance : Deliverance was just one of his projects, something to talk through on our long drives across two continents. And as I read it that night after my marriage, in a motel on the New Jersey Turnpike, I had to admit it was very damn good.
Dickey wrote a screenplay, which was heavily revised by director John Boorman. The revisions would be the subject of much acrimony. Do you really like it? As he tossed down more alcohol and the evening wore on, the question was repeated, until it became embarrassing. I took him over into North Georgia about six weeks ago, looking for locations, and damn near got him bit by a big copperhead.
We have a good script, which I did, which John redid, and which I redid his redoing of. Anyway, we feel that we can legitimately claim equal credit, and that we have something which satisfies us both, which I guess is the point anyway. John Boorman , seventy-eight, lives near Dublin, Ireland. He had a great sense of fantasy. Of course, nothing in that book actually happened to him. Sarah Rickman , eighty-five, was married to Frank Rickman, now deceased, who built sets and found filming locations in North Georgia.
She lives in Clayton. John Boorman had pink knitting thread holding his glasses. He was English and his wife was German. Boorman I was pretty hot at the time. I read the manuscript and knew exactly how to do it. Burt and Jon were both not very hot at the time.
Burt had done three TV series, which had all failed. Voight had been in Midnight Cowboy , but little else of note. Chris Dickey Burt wanted respect. He was a former stuntman, and he wanted to be a star. Reynolds I was crazy and young and thought I was totally indomitable. Deliverance saved me in terms of being thought of as a serious actor. He lives on Lake Lanier.
Dickey kept slapping Burt on the back and calling him Lewis. I think Burt punched him out. Reynolds He was about six foot seven, He was big, but I was crazy. After fighting the river, Dickey would have been a cinch. The Chattooga was a dangerous, largely unknown river forty years ago. And the men expected to paddle down it were novices in canoes. Boorman It was a location film, and I chose the river. It was the most suitable place to shoot, so we did it there. None of us had.
At that time, no one had done the Chattooga in a canoe. Just rafts that crashed and burned. Buzz Williams , sixty-one, was an early paddler of the Chattooga. In I was a high school senior in Pendleton, South Carolina. Scott and Warren Beatty were also possibilities at some point.
Eventually, Boorman got Burt Reynolds in the film that made him a star , Jon Voight , and relative newcomers to film Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty, the latter of whom had been a stage actor for 25 years, but here made his first film appearance.
Dickey was a contradictory figure, a man of letters who served in the air force in both World War Two and the Korean War, an ad man who was also a college professor as well as a poet laureate. Dickey, who was also an alcoholic, clashed heavily with Boorman throughout the shoot, particularly after the director cut the first 19 pages of the shooting script.
While the ending of the film, where Ed has a nightmare of a hand slowly rising out of the river, has become iconic - and later inspired the ending of 's Carrie - another ending was shot. The Deliverance alternate ending was another dream that featured Ed, Bobby and Lewis being summoned by the sheriff played by author Dickey after their wild outing to look at a body recovered from the river.
The sheriff lifts the sheet, but while three men can see who it is, Ed wakes up before the movie shows who it's supposed to be. While Deliverance doesn't seem like an ideal tourist film given the fate that befalls the main characters, it did lead to a rise in tourists canoeing down the same stretch of the Chattooga River seen in the film. Tragically, this led to many deaths for those unprepared for its ferocity and in it was declared a Wild and Scenic River.
Inscoe, John. Inscoe, J. In New Georgia Encyclopedia. James Dickey played the role of a sheriff in the movie version of his novel Deliverance , which starred Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight.
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