Film
Southern Comfort
1981 · 1h 46m · Thriller · War
It's the land of hospitality... unless you don't belong there.
- IMDb
- 7.1
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 80%
- Metacritic
- 63
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Overview
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.
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Cast
Keith Carradine
Spencer
Powers Boothe
Hardin
Fred Ward
Reece
Franklyn Seales
Simms
T.K. Carter
Cribbs
Lewis Smith
Stuckey
Les Lannom
Casper
Peter Coyote
Poole
Alan Autry
Bowden
Brion James
Trapper
Sonny Landham
Hunter
Allan Graf
Hunter
Ned Dowd
Hunter
Rob Ryder
Hunter
Greg Guirard
Cajun Couple
June Borel
Cajun Couple
Crew
- Walter HillScreenplay · Director
- David GilerScreenplay · Producer
- Michael KaneScreenplay
- William J. ImmermanExecutive Producer
- Andrew LaszloDirector of Photography
- Ry CooderOriginal Music Composer
- Freeman A. DaviesEditor
- Judith HolstraCasting
Media
Details
- Release date
- September 24, 1981
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rated
- R
- Genres
- Thriller, War
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