Southern Comfort (1981) on Netflix
Nine Louisiana National Guard soldiers head into the bayou for a weekend exercise, with Corporal Hardin new to the squad. Without live ammunition, they take three pirogues from a Cajun campsite.
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- IMDb7.1/1023,760 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes78%
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Plot summary
In 1973, nine soldiers of the Louisiana Army National Guard gather in rural bayou country for weekend maneuvers. Corporal Hardin arrives new to the squad, a transfer from the Texas guard who refuses the prostitutes PFC Spencer has arranged for the squad; he gets along well with the amiable Spencer, though the attitudes of the others disgust him. Staff Sergeant Poole, a Vietnam veteran, leads the squad. When the men lose their bearings in remote swampland, Poole tells them to take three pirogues from a campsite. Cajun hunter-trappers find the boats gone, and PFC Stuckey fires blanks at them from his M60 machine gun. The squad has no live ammunition.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Southern Comfort (1981)
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- Director Hill had to obtain permission from the Southern Comfort liquor producer before the film could use that name as its title.
- Powers Boothe was cast as one of the leads after Hill and Giler saw him play Jim Jones in the mini series Guyana Tragedy.
- Hill knew people would read the film as a metaphor for Vietnam, and on the day of the cast read, before they went into the swamps, he told them he didn't want to hear another word about it.
- Ry Cooder said he could score Southern Comfort without understanding the first thing about its environment: thinking about the weird swamp and the Cajun people nobody knew about, he imagined what they would sound like in the style of John Lee Hooker's music.
