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Bookmark this pageThe Deadly Companions (1961)
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Movie review
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.Author: GA
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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