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 Last Day (1972 film) certain Valera, suspected of theft, he tries to detain him, but he is killed by a lethal blow. In 1972, the director Boris Ravenskikh staged a play by Vasilyev on stage of Maly Theatre. In 1973 the performance was recorded for television The Last Day (1972 film) The Last Day () is a 1972 Soviet drama film directed by Mikhail Ulyanov. The screen version of the play of the same name by Boris Vasilyev. On his last working day, the outgoing district plenipotentiary, junior police lieutenant Semyon Mitrofanovich Kovalyov, as usual, bypasses the site and solves the accumulated problems. Among