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Released
1972 · FILM

Deliverance

A thrill‑seeking outdoorsman leads his city friends on a race to whitewater‑raft the Cahulawassee before it’s dammed, only to find the remote Georgia backcountry and its violent inhabitants turning their adventure into a fight for survival.

“What did happen on the Cahulawassee River?”

Directed by
John Boorman
Written by
James Dickey
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
109 min
AdventureDramaThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 26

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Tom PriestleyShot by Vilmos Zsigmond

Box Office

1972 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 23× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$46.1M

Budget$2.0M
Worldwide gross$46.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Beim Sterben ist jeder der Erstede
  • Délivrancefr
  • Un tranquillo week-end di paurait

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