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 |
| Writing | James Dickey | Novel |
| Writing | James Dickey | Screenplay |
| Directing | John Boorman | Director |
| Camera | Vilmos Zsigmond | Director of Photography |
| Production | John Boorman | Producer |
| Editing | Tom Priestley | Editor |
| Art | Morris Hoffman | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Bucky Rous | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Camera | Sven Walnum | Camera Operator |
| Production | Sue Dwiggins | Other |
| Crew | E. Lewis King | Other |
| Crew | Charles Wiggin | Other |
| Production | Wallace Worsley Jr. | Production Supervisor |
| Directing | Al Jennings | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Walter Goss | Sound Mixer |
| Production | Lynn Stalmaster | Casting |
| Costume & Make-Up | Donoene McKay | Hairstylist |
| Editing | Ian Rakoff | Assistant Editor |
| Camera | Earl Clark | Other |
| Crew | Rospo Pallenberg | Creative Consultant |
| Art | Fred Harpman | Art Direction |
| Directing | Miles Middough | Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Michael Hancock | Makeup Artist |
| Lighting | Jim Blair | Electrician |
| Crew | Marcel Vercoutere | Special Effects |
| Directing | Ray Quiroz | Script Supervisor |
| Sound | Eric Weissberg | Orchestrator |
| Sound | Jim Atkinson | Sound Editor |
| 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 |