The Deadly Companions

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The Deadly Companions (1961)

NR 1961-06-06 (US) Western 1h 33m

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ALONE... IN AN UNTAMED LAND -- WITH THREE MEN WHO FORCED THEIR WAY INTO HER LIFE!

Overview

Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.

Albert Sidney Fleischman

Novel, Screenplay
Sam Peckinpah

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Maureen O'Hara

Kit Tilden
Brian Keith

Yellowleg
Steve Cochran

Billy Keplinger
Chill Wills

Turk
Strother Martin

Parson
Will Wright

Doctor Acton
James O'Hara

Cal, General Store
Peter O'Crotty

Mayor of Hila City
Billy Vaughan

Mead Tildon Jr.
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A review by Wuchak

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Written by Wuchak on February 4, 2019

Melancholic, harsh Peckinpah Western with Keith and O’Hara

A former Union soldier, Yellowleg (Brian Keith), vengefully searches for a Confederate who tried to scalp him alive 5 years earlier. After something bad happens in an Arizona town he offers to escort a dance hall woman (Maureen O’Hara) to a ghost town where her former beau was buried. There are a couple problems though: They have to go through Apache territory and two lowlifes accompany them most of the way.

Released in 1961, “The Deadly Companions” has a lot going for it: It stars Keith and the beautiful O'Hara, who had s... read the rest.

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