An ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman’s son and tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.
The Deadly Companions 1961 HD | Western & adventure film directed by Sam Peckinpah | Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran & Chill Wills
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The Deadly Companions is a 1961 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran, and Chill Wills. Based on the novel of the same name by A. S. Fleischman, the film is about an ex-army officer who accidentally kills a woman’s son, and tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory. The Deadly Companions was Sam Peckinpah’s motion picture directorial debut.
Plot
After her young son is killed in a bank robbery, Kit Tilden (Maureen O’Hara) is determined to bury him beside his father in Siringo, now deserted and located in Apache territory. Yellowleg (Brian Keith), the ex-army sergeant who accidentally killed her son, decides to help take the body across the desert to be buried, whether Kit wants help or not.
Starring
- Maureen O’Hara as Kit Tilden
- Brian Keith as Yellowleg
- Steve Cochran as Billy Keplinger
- Chill Wills as Turk
Featuring
- Strother Martin as Parson
- Will Wright as Doctor Acton
- Jim O’Hara as Cal, General Store
- Peter O’Crotty as Mayor of Hila City
- Billy Vaughan as Mead Tildon Jr.
- Big John Hamilton as gambler (uncredited)
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