World's 12 Best Travel Movies

It's not all fun and games. Travel can be a matter of life and death. For those who enjoy the darker side, the travel thriller Deliverance delivers in spades. And arrows and bullets. Four Atlanta businessmen, who probably should be playing golf, decide on a more adventurous weekend canoeing down the fictional Cahulawassee River in deepest Georgia. Big mistake. The landscapes in John Boorman's cinematic wilderness are sublime, the music portentous, the screenplay terse and gritty. After losing their friend, Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, and Ned Beatty survive a harrowing hide-and-seek and rape. The words "squeal like a pig" still haunt. Has camping ever been so uninviting?