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The Deadly Companions
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| The Deadly Companions | |
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| Directed by | Sam Peckinpah |
| Produced by | Charles Fitzsimmons |
| Written by | Albert Sidney Fleischman |
| Starring | Maureen O'Hara Brian Keith Steve Cochran Chill Wills |
| Music by | Marlin Skiles |
| Cinematography | William H. Clothier |
| Release date(s) | 1961 |
| Running time | 93 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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The Deadly Companions was a movie released in 1961, directed by Sam Peckinpah, and starring Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran and Chill Wills. It was Peckinpah's directorial debut.
After her young son is killed in a bank robbery, Kit Tilden is determined to bury him beside his father in Siringo, now deserted and located in Apache territory. Yellowleg, the ex-army officer who accidentally killed her son, agrees to help her take her son's body across the desert to be buried.
| Films directed by Sam Peckinpah |
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| The Deadly Companions • Ride the High Country • Major Dundee • The Wild Bunch • The Ballad of Cable Hogue • Straw Dogs • Junior Bonner • The Getaway • Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid • Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia • The Killer Elite • Cross of Iron • Convoy • The Osterman Weekend |