One of the great American films of the ’70s, Deliverance’s story of four Atlanta “weekend warriors”—Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty—canoeing down a Georgia river and getting into some serious trouble remains one of the most terrifying tales of the era. Expertly directed by John Boorman, Deliverance also launched Reynolds to superstardom, presented one of cinema’s most horrifying sequences in Beatty’s backwoods encounter with a mountain man and introduced one of the era’s most unlikely pop radio hits, Eric Weissberg’s “Dueling Banjos.”

Shelf Talk: Deliverance is a solid catalog title, and this new edition with a commentary by Boorman and a collection of featurettes—including one that examines the Beatty sodomy sequence—is sure to raise the eyebrows of its legions of fans. (And the fact that all the film’s principals are on hand to chat doesn’t hurt either.) Vilmos Zsigmond’s justifiably famous outdoor cinematography also is sure to spark sales interest from the HD DVD and Blu-ray camps.