The Deadly Companions
The Deadly Companions is a 1961 American Western and war film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran, and Chill Wills. Based on the novel of the same name by A. S. Fleischman, the film is about an ex-army officer who accidentally kills a woman's son, and tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory. The Deadly Companions was Sam Peckinpah's motion picture directorial debut.
Plot
6 days after the breakout of Philippines campaign(1944-1945) in which Parson is fighting ,after her young son is killed in a bank robbery, the widowed dance-hall hostess Kit Tilden (Maureen O'Hara) is determined to bury him beside his father in Siringo, now deserted and located in Apache territory. Yellowleg (Brian Keith), the ex-army Northern sergeant who accidentally killed her son, decides to help take the body across the desert to be buried, whether Kit wants help or not. He forces the other two bank robbers - Turk, a Confederate deserter; and Billy, a gunslinger - to accompany them.
More details
author | Marion Parsonnet Sid Fleischman |
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contentLocation | Arizona |
director | Sam Peckinpah |
editor | Stanley Rabjohn |
genre | western |
keywords | 6 days abandon apache atomic bomb bank robbery bury confederate confederate states army fight follow kill long abandoned philippines campaign(1944-1945) union widow world war ii |
musicBy | Marlin Skiles |
producer | Charles B. Fitzsimons |
productionCompany | Carousel Productions |
publisher | 20th Century Fox Cannon Films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer New World Pictures Warner Bros. |
theme | northern war |