The Deadly Companions (1961)

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06/06/1961 (US)•Western•1h 33m

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ALONE... IN AN UNTAMED LAND -- WITH THREE MEN WHO FORCED THEIR WAY INTO HER LIFE!

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Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.

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Maureen O'Hara
Kit Tilden
Brian Keith
Yellowleg
Steve Cochran
Billy Keplinger
Chill Wills
Turk
Strother Martin
Parson
Will Wright
Doctor Acton
James O'Hara
Cal, General Store
Peter O'Crotty
Mayor of Hila City
Billy Vaughan
Mead Tildon Jr.

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A review by Wuchak

5.0

Written by Wuchak on Feb 4, 2019

***Melancholic, harsh Peckinpah Western with Keith and O’Hara*** A former Union soldier, Yellowleg (Brian Keith), vengefully searches for a Confederate who tried to scalp him alive 5 years earlier. After something bad happens in an Arizona town he offers to escort a dance hall woman (Maureen O’Hara) to a ghost town where her former beau was buried. There are a couple problems though: They have to go through Apache territory and two lowlifes accompany them most of the way. Released in 1961, “The Deadly Companions” has a lot going for it: It stars Keith and the beautiful O'Hara, who had ...