Arthur (movie)

Arthur was followed by a 1988 sequel, Arthur 2: On the Rocks.
For the album by the Swedish band Opeth, see Deliverance. It was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Dudley Moore) and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
. It won Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (John Gielgud) and Best Music, Song (for Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Christopher Cross and Peter Allen for "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)". Running time: 109 minutes. The movie was written and directed by Steve Gordon. The film was selected by the New York Times as one of "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made.".

It stars Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Jill Eikenberry. In 2001, the book was named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. Arthur is a 1981 film which tells the story of drunken playboy millionaire Arthur Bach, who can only inherit if he marries a woman he doesn't love. The rapids within both book and film become a major symbol and plot device to reflect the natural dangers of the untamed wilderness towards urban outsiders. In the years following the film's release, more than 30 people have drowned attempting to recreate the canoe trip along the section of the river where the film was shot. Deliverance was shot on the Chattooga River, dividing the states of South Carolina and Georgia.

The three leave the river valley forever, lying about their ordeal to police investigators (the sheriff was played by author James Dickey) in order to escape their double murder charge, and vowing to keep their story of death and survival a secret for the rest of their lives. For their survival, Ed must climb the cliffs and overcome his very fears in order to dispatch the other mountain man with his bow and arrow. One mountain man is killed by Lewis' archery skills, and the four make a run for it downriver, but soon Drew is shot and killed from behind in his canoe by the other mountain man, and then Lewis breaks his femur in the following boat crash in the rocky rapids. The song won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance.

In the scene at the rural gas station, character Drew Ballinger plays the instrumental "Dueling Banjos" on his guitar with a retarded mountain boy named Lonny (implied as being an inbred albino in the James Dickey novel), who eventually outplays Drew with his banjo. The film is also noted for the memorable music scene near the beginning that sets the tone for what lies ahead: a trip into unknown and potentially dangerous territory. In what remains one of the most disturbing scenes in film history, at gunpoint one of the canoeists, character Bobby Trippe, is forced to strip naked, his ear twisted to bring him to his knees, and then ordered to "squeal like a pig" before being sodomized while Ed is bound to a tree by his belt tightened around his neck. Travelling in twos, their canoes are briefly separated and the occupants of one canoe (Bobby and Ed) encounter a pair of gritty mountain men emerging from woods.

The trip turns into a terrifying ordeal revealing the primal nature of man, his animal instincts of survival, and even his potential for violence. Widely acclaimed as a landmark film, it is the story of four southern suburbanites on a weekend getaway to canoe down the fictional Cahulawassee River in the remote Georgia wildernesses, hoping to have fun and see the glory of nature before the river valley is flooded over with the upcoming construction of a dam. Studios into a 1972 motion picture drama. Deliverance is a 1970 novel by American author James Dickey that was made by Warner Bros.

Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - James Dickey. Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song - Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell. Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Drama - Jon Voight. Academy Award for Film Editing - Tom Priestley.

New York Film Critics Circle for Best Director - John Boorman. Golden Globe Award for Best Director - John Boorman. Academy Award for Directing - John Boorman. New York Film Critics Circle for Best Film.

Golden Globe Award for Best Picture - Drama. Academy Award for Best Picture. Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward - Toothless Man. Bill McKinney - Mountain Man.

Randall Deal - Second Griner. Seamon Glass - First Griner. Billy Redden - Lonny. James Dickey - Sheriff Bullard.

Ronny Cox - Drew Ballinger. Ned Beatty - Bobby Trippe. Burt Reynolds - Lewis Medlock. Jon Voight - Ed Gentry.

Music: Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell - "Dueling Banjos" (1955 composition by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith). Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond. Screenplay adaption: James Dickey. Original story: James Dickey from his novel.

Producer: John Boorman. Director: John Boorman.