Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Billy Redden- Picked a Banjo in "Deliverance"


"Deliverance" is a film about four friends who decide to take a canoe trip down an untouched river in the Georgia wilderness before a new dam changes the landscape forever. They stop at a local gas station, and in one of the film's classic scenes, guitar playing Drew picks out "Dueling Banjos" with an in-bred retarded Hillbilly boy (Redden) who was sitting on the porch. It was his only film appearance until he made a camo in the Tim Burton film "Big Fish." Today he works in a cafe in Clayton, GA and is still proud of his role in the film.

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