Southern Comfort [2 Discs]

Director: Walter Hill Walter Hill

Overview

In this film, a group of National Guardsmen is on maneuvers in Louisiana's Cajun country. The weekend soldiers offend the local swamp dwellers, resulting in a bloody shoot out. Two troopers escape, stumbling upon a Cajun ceremony. Believing they're among friendly people, the men soon learn otherwise.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/08/2014
UPC:	0826663150704
Original Release:	1981
Rating:	R
Source:	Shout Factory
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:45:00
Sales rank:	5,084

Special Features

New interviews with Powers Boothe, Keith Carradine, Lewis Smith, director Walter Hill and more...; Outtakes; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Keith Carradine	Spencer
Powers Boothe	Hardin
Fred Ward	Reece
Franklyn Seales	Simms
T.K. Carter	Cribbs
Lewis Smith	Stuckey
Les Lannom	Casper
Peter Coyote	Poole
Alan Autry	Bowden
Brion James	Trapper
Sonny Landham	Hunter
Allan Graf	Hunter
Ned Dowd	Hunter
Rob Ryder	Hunter
Greg Guirard	Cajun Couple
June Borel	Cajun Couple
Jeanne Louise Bulliard	Cajun Dancer
Orel Borle	Cajun Dancer
Jeannie Spector	Cajun Dancer
Marc Savoy	Cajun Musician,Cajun Musician
Dewey Balfa	Cajun Musician
John Stelly	Cajun Musician
Ry Cooder	Composer

Technical Credits

Walter Hill

David Giler

Michael Kane

Walter Hill	Director,Screenwriter
David Giler	Producer,Screenwriter
William J. Immerman	Executive Producer
Michael Kane	Screenwriter
Tony Romero	Sound/Sound Designer
Glenn Anderson	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Walter Hill's low-key film about a National Guard detachment that runs into trouble in Cajun swamplands is a much underrated, quietly disturbing thriller. Seemingly another Hill film about men being men -- in fact there isn't a woman in sight -- it's actually a biting critique of macho behavior as well as a haunting Vietnam allegory. While on a training exercise deep in Louisiana bayou country, some of the buffoonish part-time warriors steal some Cajun pirogues, triggering a far more devastating response than they had anticipated. As the apparently invisible locals begin picking them off one by one, their frantic attempt to escape takes them ever farther into territory that their predators know much better than they. Although the film has overtones of Deliverance, the director implies that it's not nature, but the arrogance and stupidity of its characters that have sealed their fate. As the sanest of the guardsmen, Powers Boothe and Keith Carradine do solid work, and Peter Coyote also makes his presence felt during his brief screen time. Hill seems to have banned the sun during shooting, and cameraman Andrew Laszlo employs a palette of dank greens, grays, and browns to create an ambiance of feral menace.