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Southern Comfort

Cast

Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales View All

Crew

David Giler (Screenplay), Walter Hill (Screenplay), Walter Hill (Director), Michael Kane (Screenplay) View All

Release: Sep. 25th, 1981

Runtime: 1 hour, 45 minutes

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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JayDee
On the one hand you can enjoy this film on the level that you can enjoy just about every Walter Hill film; as a purely kick-ass action film.

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KeyserCorleone
After watching a few of his movies, including most of his best, Walter Hill has done something that I feel is underrated in stark contrast to the Hill films I found overrated.