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Seen on: 02/08/2012

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Southern Comfort (1981)

Directed by Walter Hill

Adventure | Drama | Thriller

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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.

Rated R | Length 105 minutes

Actors

Brion James | Sonny Landham | Powers Boothe | Peter Coyote | Fred Ward | T. K. Carter | Keith Carradine | Allan Graf | Lewis Smith | Ned Dowd | Franklyn Seales | Alan Autry | Les Lannom | Greg Guirard | Joseph Oliveira | Jeanne-Louise Bulliard | Marc Savoy | Dewey Balfa | Rob Ryder | June Borel | Orel Borel | Jeannie Spector | Frank Savoy | John Stelly | Billy C. Chandler

Viewing Notes

I love Walter Hill; he’s done some great stuff. Southern Comfort isn’t one of his great films. It is, however, still entertaining, and features some great cajun zydeco music as well as another Ry Cooder score.

Powers Boothe, Keith Carradine and Fred Ward chew through the scenery here, making for an, at times, fun watch.

This is an obvious allegory for the moral confusion of the war in Vietnam. When you take that into consideration, the actions of the characters make a lot more sense; or at least as much sense as they’re going to make.

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