Deliverance to play Lewis Medlock. Jack Nicholson was considered for the role of Ed, while both Donald Sutherland and Charlton Heston turned down the role of Lewis. Other actors who were attached to the project included Robert Redford, Henry Fonda, George C. Scott and Warren Beatty. The film is infamous for cutting costs by not insuring the production and having the actors perform their own stunts (most notably, Jon Voight climbed the cliff himself). In one scene, the stunt coordinator decided that a scene showing a canoe with a dummy of Burt Reynolds in it looked phony; he said it looked
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