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Southern Comfort (1981)
Directed by Walter Hill
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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
Keith Carradine | Powers Boothe | Fred Ward | Franklyn Seales | T. K. Carter | Lewis Smith | Les Lannom | Peter Coyote | Alan Autry | Brion James | Sonny Landham | Allan Graf | Ned Dowd | Rob Ryder | Greg Guirard | June Borel | Jeanne-Louise Bulliard | Orel Borel | Jeannie Spector | Marc Savoy | Frank Savoy | Dewey Balfa | John Stelly | Billy C. Chandler | Joseph Oliveira
Viewing History (seen 2 times)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/09/2024 | Home Theater | 4K Blu-ray | Owned | 7 stars |
| 02/08/2012 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 5 stars |
| (Average) 6 stars |
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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