I cannot believe anyone would think “Deliverance” depicted homosexuals in a good light. The demented hillbillies hardly presented a picture of homos that GLAAD would approve. I’m wondering if they picketed the film when it came out. Still one of my favorites. Especially liked the scene where Burt plugs Bill McKinney with the arrow.
Indeed. I finally saw it for the first time this year. I’m surprised the GLAAD/homonazi crowd doesn’t have the film destroyed as “hate speech”.
In between “Deliverance” and his role as Redlegs in “The Outlaw Josey Wales”, McKinney played two of 1970s cinema’s nastiest villains. Quite a change from his likable role as Steve McQueen’s rodeo rival in “Junior Bonner”.
I recently read the book, not something that I would normally read but it wasn’t bad. Well written, and there’s a middle chunk when they get on the river that keeps up the tension for the bulk of the book. Of course I might think differently if I didn’t know the movie.
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