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.

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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.

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Films directed by Sam Peckinpah
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
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