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Southern Comfort
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
1981 · Directed by Walter Hill · 106 min · Thriller · War · 18 frames
Tagline
It's the land of hospitality... unless you don't belong there.
Crew
- Screenplay: Walter Hill, David Giler, Michael Kane
- Cinematography: Andrew Laszlo
- Edited by: Freeman A. Davies
- Music: Ry Cooder
- Production design: John Vallone
- Produced by: David Giler
Cast
- Keith Carradine as Spencer
- Powers Boothe as Hardin
- Fred Ward as Reece
- Franklyn Seales as Simms
- T.K. Carter as Cribbs
- Lewis Smith as Stuckey
- Les Lannom as Casper
- Peter Coyote as Poole
- Alan Autry as Bowden
- Brion James as Trapper
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: French, English
- Studios: Cinema Group Ventures, Phoenix (II), 20th Century Fox
- Themes: rescue, louisiana, wilderness, swamp, gore, national guard, trap, poacher, bayou, survival
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