Class of 1972: Deliverance

Horror Movie Yearbook

Our Summer in the Woods series continues as we crank up the “Dueling Banjos” and trust in Burt to get us down the river safe and sound. Everything should go fine, right? Right?

TIMESTAMPS

:11 Intro and Remembering Charles Cyphers

• We preview the latest Midwest Game Nerds Podcast
• We take a look back at the career of Sherriff Leigh Bracket himself, Charles Cyphers.

10:52 The Time Machine July 30th, 1972

• Longing for the days when a guy named Gilbert O’Sullivan could dominate the pop charts
• Standing up for Vegas Vacation

17:06 Deliverance Discussion

• THAT scene and how it holds up today
• The Vietnam Parallels
• The goofy author and the lunatic director
• How Burt did things his way
• Making a case for this being one of the great American movies