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
Daughter-In-Law (1972 film) Daughter-In-Law (1972 film) Nevestka (English: Daughter-In-Law, Turkmen:Gelin) is a 1972 Turkmenistani film directed by Khodzha Kuli Narliyev, starring Maya-Gozel Aimedova, Aynabat Amanliyeva, and Baba Annanov. The film is about a woman who loses her husband during World War II and is forced to take care of her father-in-law in the desert. "Nevestka" has been called "the film that put Turkmen film on the map". Mira Liehm and Antonín J. Liehm note its "strong cinematic feeling for local settings". Michael Rouland calls it a "representation of Turkmen life at the edge of the desert during World War Two", writing that it