Director John Boorman’s photography is stunning in this 1972 adventure film, which follows four suburban guys – tough-guy Lewis (Burt Reynolds) and his less macho buddies – on a getaway canoe trip down a river in Georgia, about to be flooded forever by the construction of a giant dam. After Drew (Ronny Cox) plays an impromptu guitar and banjo duet with a backwoods picker (pictured), Drew and Lewis, along with stuffy Ed (Jon Voight) and pudgy Bobby (Ned Beatty), take to the river in two canoes – and their lives are never the same again. Based on the poetic novel by James Dickey, Deliverance is a terrific film, with excellent performances, including Reynolds’ career-best work.