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QUESTIONThe 1972 film Deliverance shows scenes in which there are large-scale excavations and earth movement. In other scenes, graves are being dug up. What were they building?
JOHN BOORMAN'S brutal masterpiece opens with voice-overs of the main characters discussing the 'vanishing wilderness' and the corruption of modern civilisation, while the credits play over views of the flooding of one of the last untamed stretches of land and the imminent wiping out of the entire (fictional) Cahulawassee River and the small town of Aintry.See the full content of this document
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The Chattooga Set-to [Eire Region]
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it is turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock (Burt Reynolds) takes his friends on a river-rafting trip into the wilderness with unforeseen consequences.
The rafting scenes in Deliverance were filmed on the beautiful Chattooga River, the main tributary of the Tugaloo.Its headwaters are found in North Carolina, ...See the full content of this document
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