Dueling Banjos was made famous by the 1972 film "Deliverance," which also led to a successful lawsuit by the song's composer, as it was used in the film without Smith's permission. The film version was arranged and recorded by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell, but only credited to Weissberg on a single subsequently issued in December 1972. It went to #2 for four weeks on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in 1973, all four weeks behind Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly with His Song," and topped the adult contemporary chart for two weeks the same year. It reached #1 for one week on
The Mad Trapper (1972 film) and aircraft to bring down their prey. "The Mad Trapper" was filmed mainly on location in the Yukon and Alaska, the same locales of the "Mad Trapper" manhunt. Reviewer Leonard Maltin noted "(The) Mad Trapper" was made in 1972 and was based on the story of "... a fur trapper pursued by the law in Arctic surroundings." The Mad Trapper (1972 film) The Mad Trapper is a 1972 British made-for-television docudrama film. "The Mad Trapper" is based on the 1931 Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) pursuit of a trapper named Albert Johnson, the reputed "Mad Trapper of Rat River". A