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The Deadly Companions (1961)

Director: Sam Peckinpah

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From Time Out Film Guide

Peckinpah's first film, a not altogether characteristic but nevertheless quirky Western which sees Keith's ex-army sergeant making amends for killing a boy by ferrying his corpse and his mother on a funeral procession through Apache territory. Routine in places, but enlivened by the sardonic characterisation (reminiscent in some ways of Faulkner's superficially similar As I Lay Dying) and by odd moments of visual bravura.

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Cast & crew

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Producer: Charles B Fitzsimons

Cast: Brian Keith, Maureen O'Sullivan, Chill Wills, Steve Cochran, Strother Martin, Will Wright full cast

Genre(s): Westerns

Duration: 90 mins


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