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The Deadly Companions movie storyline. Intending of robbing Gila City’s bank, the ex-Union soldier Yellowleg makes a pact with Turk, a Confederate loose cannon and his showy sharpshooter companion, Billy Keplinger, only to see another gang get to the bank first. As a result, when the innocent son of the ill-reputed dance-hall girl, Kit Tildon, is killed in crossfire, Yellowleg’s rough gang will wind up escorting the pained mother on a dangerous funeral trip to bury the son next to his father, in the ghost town of Siringo. Undoubtedly, each of the men has reasons of their own to help Kit ride through the perilous Apache territory; could one of them be a long-awaited revenge?
The Deadly Companions is a 1961 American Western and war 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.
The Deadly Companions (1961)
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran, Chill Wills, Strother Martin, Will Wright, Jim O’Hara, Peter O’Crotty, Billy Vaughan, Big John Hamilton, Robert Sheldon, Buck Sharpe
Screenplay by: A. S. Fleischman
Production Design by: Lee Lukather
Cinematography by: William H. Clothier
Film Editing by: Stanley Rabjohn
Makeup Department: James R. Barker, Fae M. Smith
Music by: Marlin Skiles
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Pathé – America Distributing Company (United States), Warner Bros. Pictures (International)
Release Date: June 6, 1961
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