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The dueling banjo scene in John Boorman's Deliverance (1972) is one of my favorite musical moments ever in a film. It's simultaneously delightful, funny, and deeply creepy.
Billy Redden (born 1956) is an American actor, best known for his role as a backwoods mountain boy in the 1972 film Deliverance. He played Lonnie, a banjo -playing teenager in north Georgia, who played the noted "Dueling Banjos" with Drew Ballinger ( Ronny Cox ).
Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film produced and directed by John Boorman, and starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts. The screenplay was adapted by James Dickey from his 1970 novel of the same name.
The movie, “Deliverance,” made tourist dollars flow into the area, but there was one memorable, horrifying male rape scene that lasted a little more than four minutes, but has lasted 40 years...
Deliverance has an infamous rape scene and a famous dueling banjo scene and men keep failing to understand the subtext in John Boorman's 1972 film.
But as opposed to surreptitiously trying to appropriate the banjo’s origins to White culture, some believe the scene is exploitative of distressed rural Whites, giving into the stereotype of the slack jawed mountain inbred, reinforced even further by the rape scene later in the Deliverance film.
Billy Redden. Jump to Edit. Overview. Born. 1956. Mini Bio. Billy Redden was a typical local teen living in Georgia, handpicked by director John Boorman for the role of an odd banjo player in the Oscar-nominated classic Deliverance (1972).
