Deliverance's dark secrets - real-life 'hillbillies', fights and haunted by 'squealing'
dailystar.co.ukREAD MORE: Crying teen exposes her inbred 'hillbilly sex ring' family where dad traded rape for beerBut things turn sour when the not-so-happy campers discover the locals are anything but welcoming.Here we look at some surprising - and little-known - facts about the iconic 70s flick.One of the most famous scenes is perhaps one of the most uplifting.Drew Ballinger (Ronnie Cox) challenges Lonnie, played by Billy Redden, to a musical duet and the resulting back-and-forth strumming stand-off is a moment of movie magic.Some of the native Appalachian locals said the film cast a negative impression of them as inbred sex offenders.But Redden said the film role was the best thing that ever happened to him.
He featured in a couple of other movies and still lives in Rabun County where the film was shot.In his last interviews, he was working for Walmart in Clayton, Georgia.On the second day of their ill-fated trip, Ned Beatty's character is forcibly sodomised by a backwoods nutcase who orders him to "squeal like a pig".The brutal, lengthy and toe-curling scene is one which Beatty could never shake off."How many times has that been shouted, said or whispered to me since then?”, the actor wrote in a column for The New York Times.“It was my first film and my best.
So it hurts my pride when some jerk hollers ‘Squeal like a pig’ at me. I get mad — real mad."In one scene, director John Boorman had originally planned to send a dummy down the rapids.
But like his full-of bravado character, Reynolds insisted he go over the falls himself.“First thing I did was hit a rock, crack my tailbone, did a flip and I was in a hydro-flow.
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