DVD Times (http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=65087)

Warner Home Video have announced the US Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD release of Deliverance (35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) on 18th September 2007 priced at $28.99 SRP each. Directed by John Boorman (Excalibur, Hope and Glory) and adapted by James Dickey from his novel, Deliverance was nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox star as the four friends whose canoeing weekend turns into a horrifying test of survival.

The film debuts on Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD alongside the new 35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition DVD and has been newly remastered and now comes with a host of new bonus features. These include:

* Commentary by John Boorman - Director Boorman takes a journey down the river and discusses the adventures, the team, the controversy and what it took to make Deliverance a classic film.

* Deliverance: The Beginning - [Take a historical look at the novel and its adaptation to the screen.

* Deliverance: The Journey - [along from the early stages of filming to the creation of classic moments, such as the Dueling Banjos scene.

* Deliverance: Betraying the River - The making of one of the most controversial and ground-breaking sequences in film history.

* Deliverance: Delivered - A reflective look back on the completion of the film, its impact and how the idea for the shocking ending came to be.

* The Dangerous World of Deliverance - The original behind-the-scenes documentary on the difficult conditions and challenges of making this film

* Theatrical Trailer

Squeeallll :p

I can hear the banjo's playing.....

Remember how studios such as Paramount had lamo names for their various special edition DVDs like "Don't Call Me Shirley Edition for The Naked Gun", etc.

I Warner ever got into that style of marketing, do you think they would come up with something like....

"Deliverance: The You Gots A Purdy Mouth Edition"???

-Murray

Excellent! Warner delivers again. :D

I hope this is one of those 4k transfers?

Great news... this is a must-buy.

Warner is king of the catalogue.

Excellent! Warner delivers again. :D

I hope this is one of those 4k transfers?

I hope it's one of those transfers, too. I'll be picking this up to replace my Walmart bargain bin dvd version (which may be the only version available). I'm glad to see Warner making some new announcements. I've seen a number of threads talking about how Warner had nothing coming out after the Matrix and 300 announcements. Warner isn't stupid...they're just being tight lipped. We just have to be patient, LOL.

Ugliest human being ever to appear in film.

Great news... this is a must-buy.

Agreed, this is a classic and a must-buy for me. I truly hope they do this one justice.

Warner is king of the catalogue.

yes they are!

Ugliest human being ever to appear in film.

...I dunno, Voight cleaned up pretty good in Anaconda...

ps. Fascinating - IMDB is wrong about who played the Banjo Kid.

Link to wiki page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Redden)

Squeeallll :p

Deliverance was the first movie I ever saw in a movie theater as a boy growing up in Taiwan. Of course, the censors there cut all the non G-rated scenes out, and I grew up thinking of Deliverance as a nice adventure story of buddies on a rafting trip.

Years later, when I mentioned to my college roommate at UCLA that Deliverance was one of my favorite movies as a kid, he wondered how my parents let me see that movie as a kid given all the violence and especially the infamous "squeal like a pig" scene. My response was "what rape scene?"

Deliverance was the first movie I ever saw in a movie theater as a boy growing up in Taiwan. Of course, the censors there cut all the non G-rated scenes out, and I grew up thinking of Deliverance as a nice adventure story of buddies on a rafting trip.

Years later, when I mentioned to my college roommate at UCLA that Deliverance was one of my favorite movies as a kid, he wondered how my parents let me see that movie as a kid given all the violence and especially the infamous "squeal like a pig" scene. My response was "what rape scene?"



Hahaha! Did you revisit it and were you shocked at the REAL story? :)

Hahaha! Did you revisit it and were you shocked at the REAL story? :)

Seriously! I can remember trying to watch an edited version recently (TNT HD maybe? ugh). It was terrible. They got to the rape scene and suddenly skipped to Burt Reynolds notching the arrow. The movie simply cannot be watched that way.

Great news on this release. I will buy it asap.

Ed: Look, what is it that you require of us?
Mountain Man: What we, uh, "re-quire" is that you get your god-damn asses up in them woods.

YEEEHAAA! :p

Hahaha! Did you revisit it and were you shocked at the REAL story? :)

Yeah, my college roommate rented it to prove that he wasn't pulling my leg, and my reaction was WTF...
talk about a ruined childhood memory