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Southern Comfort

Southern Comfort

It's the land of hospitality... unless you don't belong there.

19816.91h 46m

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.

Directed by Walter Hill
Written by David Giler, Walter Hill, Michael Kane
Produced by David Giler
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Top Cast

Keith Carradine

Keith Carradine

Spencer

Powers Boothe

Powers Boothe

Hardin

Fred Ward

Fred Ward

Reece

Franklyn Seales

Franklyn Seales

Simms

T.K. Carter

T.K. Carter

Cribbs

Lewis Smith

Lewis Smith

Stuckey

Les Lannom

Les Lannom

Casper

Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote

Poole

Alan Autry

Alan Autry

Bowden

Brion James

Brion James

Trapper

Themes & Keywords

rescuelouisianawildernessswampgorenational guardtrappoacherbayousurvivalmurdersoldiercajunanimal killingmilitary excerciseviolence

About Southern Comfort

Southern Comfort is a thriller, action film released in 1981 exploring themes of rescue, louisiana, wilderness, swamp, gore, national guard. Directed by Walter Hill, it stars Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward. 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.

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