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The ultimate odyssey into the untamed wilderness of the supposedly civilized heart, John Boorman's shock to the pop-culture consciousness follows four friends from Atlanta-played by Burt Reynolds (in his breakthrough role), Jon Voight, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox-on a weekend canoeing trip in rural Georgia. What they encounter there-startling, brutal, and unforgettable-has unsettled viewers for more than fifty years.

Shooting on location in Appalachia to achieve scenes of almost mythic resonance (including the iconic dueling-banjos sequence), Boorman constructs one of the most harrowing survival thrillers ever made and a potent, daringly ambiguous deconstruction of masculinity on the edge.

With a new 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director John Boorman, Deliverance is given the Criterion collection and released on dual-format Blu-ray and 4K UHD 25th January 2027 from Spirit Entertainment.

Special Features

  • New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director John Boorman, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • Audio commentary featuring Boorman
  • New interview with critic Mark Harris
  • Audio reading of "Mountain Men: An Oral History of Deliverance", a 2011 article by Charles Bethea
  • James Dickey reading from his novel Deliverance
  • The Dangerous World of Deliverance, a 1972 documentary about the making of the film
  • Interview with Dickey from a 1977 episode of The Dick Cavett Show
  • The Making of Deliverance (2007), a four-part documentary by Laurent Bouzereau
  • The Cast Looks Back, a roundtable discussion from 2012
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • An essay by author Francine Prose
  • New cover based on an original theatrical poster