Recently, one of our netizens brought up a link to a picture of Banjo Boy from the 1972 movie “Deliverance,” and it piqued my interest. Who was Banjo Boy?

Basic plot: Four city slickers venture into the backwoods for a canoeing trip, stop for gas and to hire some drivers to take their vehicles downstream. Having made some stereotypical observations about hillbillies and inbreeding, they soon find out that the locals don’t like them very much.

Once the story line was set up, Banjo Boy had only one scene, a non-speaking one, but it was crucial to the plot of the movie, foreshadowing what was to come.

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