Un tranquillo weekend di paura (1972)
Quattro amici di Atlanta (Georgia) decidono di passare un weekend discendendo in canoa il fiume Chattooga che attraversa la valle della Cahula, prima che il paesaggio sia sconvolto dalla costruzione di una diga. La gita si trasforma in un incubo di violenza e di morte. Tratto da un romanzo di James Dickey che l'ha sceneggiato e che compare nel film nella piccola parte di uno sceriffo, il film svolge i temi del confronto tra natura e civiltà, tra mondo urbano e mondo rurale e della necessità della violenza individuale a contatto con la natura selvaggia. Quello dei quattro cittadini è un viaggio negli inferi dell'inconscio, del pre-storico, del mito in un contesto di dolore e di morte. Tra le diverse scene memorabili da citare almeno il duetto di banjo e chitarra all'inizio. Ottima fotografia di V. Zsigmond.
Direttore:
John Boorman
Scrittore:
James Dickey
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Jon Voight as Ed Gentry |
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Burt Reynolds as Lewis Medlock |
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Ned Beatty as Bobby Trippe |
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Ronny Cox as Drew Ballinger |
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Ed Ramey as Old Man at the Gas-Station |
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Billy Redden as Lonnie - The Banjo Boy |
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Seamon Glass as First Griner |
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Randall Deal as Second Griner |
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Bill McKinney as Mountain Man |
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Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward as Toothless Man |
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Lewis Crone as First Deputy |
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Ken Keener as Second Deputy |
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Johnny Popwell as Ambulance Driver |
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John Fowler as Doctor |
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Kathy Rickman as Nurse |
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Louise Coldren as Mrs. Biddiford |
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Pete Ware as Taxi Driver |
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James Dickey as Sheriff Bullard |
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Macon McCalman as Deputy Queen |
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Hoyt Pollard as Boy at Gas Station |
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Belinda Beatty as Martha Gentry |
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Charley Boorman as Ed's Boy |
| Directing | John Boorman | Director |
| Writing | James Dickey | Novel |
| Production | John Boorman | Producer |
| Camera | Vilmos Zsigmond | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Tom Priestley | Editor |
| Writing | James Dickey | Screenplay |
| Art | Morris Hoffman | Set Decoration |
| Art | Fred Harpman | Art Direction |
| Directing | Ray Quiroz | Script Supervisor |
| Crew | Charles Wiggin | Other |
| Crew | E. Lewis King | Other |
| Production | Wallace Worsley Jr. | Production Supervisor |
| Directing | Al Jennings | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Miles Middough | Assistant Director |
| Production | Sue Dwiggins | Other |
| Crew | Marcel Vercoutere | Special Effects |
| Costume & Make-Up | Bucky Rous | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Michael Hancock | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Donoene McKay | Hairstylist |
| Sound | Walter Goss | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Jim Atkinson | Sound Editor |
| Editing | Ian Rakoff | Assistant Editor |
| Camera | Sven Walnum | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Earl Clark | Other |
| Lighting | Jim Blair | Electrician |
| Crew | Rospo Pallenberg | Creative Consultant |
| Production | Lynn Stalmaster | Casting |
| Sound | Eric Weissberg | Orchestrator |
| Sound | Doug E. Turner | Production Sound Mixer |
| Camera | Bill Butler | Second Unit Director of Photography |
| Art | Sidney H. Greenwood | Property Master |
| Camera | Arthur Brooker | Key Grip |