Lake Jocassee below 300 feet of water. Mount Carmel Baptist Church Cemetery was a setting for a scene in the film "Deliverance" (1972), starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight, produced before the lake was flooded. The site is now covered by 130 feet of water in the lake. A confluence of four rivers supplies Lake Jocassee's water. The farthest west of the rivers, the Whitewater River, flows southeast until it meets the northwest corner of Lake Jocassee. The Thompson River flows due south until it too reaches the lake in the northwest corner. The Horsepasture River feeds the lake from the northeast
Big Bad John (film) Big Bad John (film) Big Bad John is a 1990 film directed by Burt Kennedy. It stars Ned Beatty and Jimmy Dean, the latter of whom wrote and performed the song the film is based upon. Charlie Mitchelle (Ned Beatty) takes his car and decides to discover what's in the west. While driving, he encounters a group of killers. After killing many of them, he manages to escape. Charlie finds that Jake Calhoun (Jack Elam), one of the group who survived, was cheating on his license. Charlie drives Jake and then a killer throws him out to kill him and