What did happen on the Cahulawassee River?
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
DramaAdventureThrillerrapebased on novel or bookriverbanjostrangenesswoundwildernessgeorgiacanoeraftinghillbillyrapids
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Earnest, overwhelming, grave and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Jon VoightEd Gentry
- Burt ReynoldsLewis Medlock
- Ned BeattyBobby Trippe
- Ronny CoxDrew Ballinger
- Ed RameyOld Man at the Gas-Station
- Billy ReddenLonnie - The Banjo Boy
- Seamon GlassFirst Griner
- Randall DealSecond Griner
- Bill McKinneyMountain Man
- Herbert 'Cowboy' CowardToothless Man
Crew
- John BoormanDirector
- James DickeyScreenplay
- James DickeyNovel
- Vilmos ZsigmondDirector of Photography
- Tom PriestleyEditor
- John BoormanProducer
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