The Deadly Companions
by Sam Peckinpah
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Actor: Brian Keith, Maureen O'HaraDirector: Sam Peckinpah
Brand: WESTLAKE ENTERTAINMENT INC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Digital Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1961-01-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Westlake Ent. Group
Movie Reviews of The Deadly Companions
Movie Review: Five stars for the movie, zero stars for the DVD
Summary: 1 Stars
What a shameful presentation of the first great Peckinpah. 1961 the directorial debut of Sam the Man anticipated not only the Italo Western but most of the other great Westerns to come until Tombstone and Deadwood. The relation of a man who helps a mother to bury the son he killed is one of the strongest love stories ever filmed in Apache county and beyond. Two bruised souls shine bright in the dirt. Maureen O`Hara and Brian Keith, the deadly companions fully deserve a fully restored widescreen release.
Summary of The Deadly Companions
DEADLY COMPANIONS THE (DVD MOVIE)With its small cast, character-driven story, and modest production values, Sam Peckinpah's first feature film seems very like another of his TV Western dramas--just one that happened to get shot in Panavision. The director's favorite TV actor, Brian Keith, plays a surly loner named Yellowleg who ventures into Indian country with a dance-hall girl (Maureen O'Hara), the corpse of her little boy, and a pair of marginally human specimens (Steve Cochran and Chill Wills) who more than justify the title. Everybody has, or seems to have, a guilty or shameful secret: Why does Yellowleg keep his hat on? Was Kit (O'Hara) a widow, or a whore? Action, menace, and ethical dialogues come and go pretty much according to TV rhythms, and the visuals and editing are conventional. But there's enough quirky character work and offbeat mood-making to hint at the singular filmmaker soon to arrive big-time. --Richard T. Jameson
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