Southern Comfort (1981 film)

Southern Comfort
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWalter Hill
Written byMichael Kane
Walter Hill
David Giler
Produced byDavid Giler
StarringKeith Carradine
Powers Boothe
Fred Ward
T. K. Carter
Franklyn Seales
CinematographyAndrew Laszlo
Edited byFreeman A. Davies
Music byRy Cooder
Production
companies
Cinema Group Ventures
Phoenix (II)
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • September 25, 1981 (1981-09-25)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$7.6 million[1][2]
Box office$2.9 million (US)[3]
262,625 admissions (France)[4]

Southern Comfort is a 1981 American action-war drama- thriller film directed by Walter Hill and written by Michael Kane, Hill and his longtime collaborator David Giler. It stars Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, T. K. Carter, Franklyn Seales and Peter Coyote. The film, set in 1973, features a Louisiana Army National Guard squad of nine from an infantry unit on weekend maneuvers in rural bayou country as they antagonize some local Cajun people and become hunted.

  1. ^ Chase, Donald (March 14, 1982). "THE NEW STAR PRODUCERS: THE NEW 'STAR' PRODUCERS THE NEW 'STAR' PRODUCERS". Los Angeles Times. p. K1.
  2. ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p259
  3. ^ "Southern Comfort (1981) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved February 11, 2023.
  4. ^ Box office figures for Walter Hill films in France at Box Office Story

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