He adapted his novel "Deliverance" for the big screen & played a sheriff in the 1972 movie
Adapted from James Dickey's popular novel, John Boorman's 1972 movie .... 
ideas remain in his screenplay that John Boorman's screen version becomes a 
lot ... of the film he is tasked with defending them and this time he succeeds, to his
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