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Show Movie delivers suspense M I HI' l ' LCf I " "f i i ... "v v" .,'"'1( ";. ' ' tJT- - exuberant ride through the first rapids. Two of the party are sexually sex-ually assaulted by two horny old hillbillies at gunpoint. Luckily Burt Reynolds comes down the river and shoots one through the chest with a hunting arrow. The other pervert flees and tracks the party along the canyon edge for the remainder of the movie. Which is what the movie is about. No use spoiling it for you ... the action is tremendous. The film is technically very superior. sup-erior. The editing is quick and precise, pre-cise, it never lets you ponder a scene too long. Despite the variety of shooting angles, the viewer never looses perspective. Some of the best photography is down on the river in the rapid-running scenes. Water-level shots give you the feeling feel-ing you're swallowing water along with the semi-drowned heroes. No doubles were used for the stunts, and you can see Jon Voight et al running some amazingly fierce rapids. rap-ids. Voight also performs his own cliff climbing scene, a great piece of Dhotoqraphy shot by moonlight, hroak just suspend I suspense. When the ere Sits finally come up, the viewe as t0 massage the knots out of his arms and legs. Finally, the portrayal of hill peo p,e as vicious dirty killers is rank-ng rank-ng anyone who has spent time w ,h them. If such a stereotype had 1 applied to Blacks, Chicanes T Indians, then probably never would have been released. re-leased. But hillbillies have been the butt of national jokes for so long no one seems to recognize the acuteness of their real plight. And this movie won't help. A word of caution - there are several macabre scenes in the film. The anal rape scene is hand ed well but twisted bodies litter the screen. So don't have a big meal before you go. All points considered however, "Deliverance" is brilliant. Fine acting act-ing and fine filming combine to produce pro-duce one of the top movies of the year. It should be up for Academy Awards in several areas. by BILL MARLING Chronicle Staff "Deliverance" is the best edge-of-your-seat suspense movie to come along since "Z." The probable prob-able reason is that James Dickey, who wrote the novel, also wrote the screenplay and had considerable consider-able control over the direction and production of the film. And it shows. The movie was filmed at the location Dickey wrote about - a wild river in the semi-tropical hills of north Georgia. Your businessmen business-men from Atlanta decide to make a weekend canoe trip down the stream to get "back to nature" in the patent manner of city-slickers. They hire some hillbillies to drive their car to the trip's end point, a little town called Aintry. The depiction de-piction of the hill folk is a bit overdone over-done .... the last Appalachians who looked that grisly passed on with Daniel Boone ... but the film has a fine moment in the guitar-banjo guitar-banjo duel played by one businessman business-man and a blind boy. The real action begins after an Jon Voight bottles the white-water rapids in movie DELIVE with available light. Music is somewhat some-what lacking however, save the guitar-banjo duet. It just plinks in here and there. Perhaps a couple of strong numbers by Mike Russo - whom Dickey originally wanted to play the guitar - would have saved this aspect. There were a couple of flaws in the movie. Nothing major, but noticeable no-ticeable none-the-less. In the first scenes of the movie John Voight has a very full mustache, but in the next scene - river running - he has none at all. Makes you wonder if it's even the same fellow. Secondly, Sec-ondly, the movie never has a ten- |