Southern Comfort

1981 · directed by Walter Hill

Rating

70/100

Hit

no

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.

Southern Comfort (1981), directed by Walter Hill, rates 70/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Keith Carradine
• Powers Boothe
• Fred Ward
• Franklyn Seales
• T.K. Carter
• Lewis Smith
• Les Lannom
• Peter Coyote
• Alan Autry
• Brion James

Crew

• Andrew Laszlo — Director of Photography
• Freeman A. Davies — Editor
• Ry Cooder — Original Music Composer
• David Giler — Screenplay
• Michael Kane — Screenplay
• Walter Hill — Screenplay

More from Walter Hill

1. The Warriors (1979) — 76/100
2. 48 Hrs. (1982) — 73/100
3. The Driver (1978) — 70/100
4. The Long Riders (1980) — 70/100
5. Crossroads (1986) — 70/100
6. Hard Times (1975) — 70/100

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