The Deadly Companions (1961) on Netflix
Approved19611h 33mAdventureWestern
A bank robbery leaves Kit Tilden's son dead. The ex-sergeant who killed him by accident means to carry the body to Siringo, in Apache country, where the boy's father lies buried.
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- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb6.0/103,249 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes86%
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Plot summary
Kit Tilden is a widow who works as a dance-hall hostess. Her young son is killed during a bank robbery, and she wants him buried beside his father in Siringo, a town that now stands empty inside Apache territory. Yellowleg, a former sergeant in the Union army, killed the boy by accident. He determines to take the body to Siringo himself, no matter what Kit thinks. He makes two men come with them: Turk, who deserted from the Confederate army, and Billy, a shootist.
Cast
- Peter O'Crottyas Mayor of Hila City
- Billy Vaughanas Mead Tildon Jr.
- Hank Gobbleas Bartender (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Deadly Companions (1961)
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- Maureen O'Hara said in her 2004 memoir 'Tis Herself that director Sam Peckinpah "didn't have a clue how to direct a movie" and called him one of the strangest and most objectionable people she had ever worked with.
- Peckinpah had no control over the screenplay or the editing of the low-budget The Deadly Companions. He vowed he would never direct another film unless he had script control.
