Deliver Us from Evil (1973)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Fantastic!

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

"Deliver Us from Evil" definitely stars a number of heavyweights, namely Jan-Michael Vincent and George Kennedy, who portray two men of a group who come across an airplane skyjacker with six hundred thousand dollars while hiking in the mountains.As far as 70's TV movies go, this isn't up there with the best ones, but it's far from being one of the worst ones. The film has a lot of outdoors sequences and it's good to see actors actually roughing it for the camera a bit.My main problem with the film is that it seems to end too early, like there are a few more chapters missing. Someone mentioned "Deliverance," imagine if "Deliverance" ended a half hour early, and that's kind of where this film ends up. As disappointing as that is, this is still a halfway decent 70's TV-movie viewing. Kind of tough to find but it's out there in internet-land.

Well-acted film that skips flashy for effective. With its character focus, surprisingly good characterization, character development, moral ambiguity, and pacing it feels a lot more like a stage play than a TV movie - in the best ways. Bradford Dillman and George Kennedy put in great work with Dillman's quiet desperation being particularly poignant. The mountain setting works well to focus on the isolation of the characters both from the world and from moral decisions then, finally, from each other. The cold weather seems at first to represent the hostility of the world but ends up representing the coldness of the men toward each other.The writer, Jack Sowards, had previously worked on TV series like Bonanza and this was his first full-length screenplay to be shot. Its good dialog, solid pace, and rich characterization foreshadow the work he did a decade later when he wrote Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.Definitely worth a watch if you can find it!

George Kennedy, Jan-Michael Vincent, Jack Weston, Bradford Dillman, are among the wilderness warriors tempted to divide and keep $600,000 taken from a parachuting plane hijacker. After George Kennedy kills the hijacker, the group rather quickly decides to hike out of the mountains with their windfall gain. This leads to various members dying, with their share again divided equally among the survivors. With the money seeming to bring on nothing but bad luck, the last men find themselves burning $100 bills for warmth in a driving blizzard. The scenery is impressive, character development acceptable, and the story rather predictable. - MERK

It's hard to believe that this film is nearly forty years old, and I would dare to say that it is still thrilling by today's standards, without relying on extremely expensive special effects or gore or of any of the like. I was in the mood to watch something on the order of 'A Simple Plan' with Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton, and 'Deliver Us From Evil' was a definite inspiration for that one. Other reviewers have likened this movie to 'Deliverance' but I can't say as I haven't seen it yet. The acting is decent, although I had only ever heard of George Kennedy before.It's hard to believe that this movie was made for TV, and it really is a shame that more people don't know about it, because I would definitely recommend it.DELIVER US FROM EVIL ----- 8/10