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The Deadly Companions

1961

Sam Peckinpah

Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Strother Martin, Chill Wills ...

4.9

720

Western After her young son is killed in a bank robbery, Kit Tilden is determined to bury him beside his father in Siringo, now deserted and located in Apache territory. Yellowleg, the man who killed her son, agrees to help her take her son's body across the desert to be buried.

	Media	Author	Review
		Variety	"Fleischman’s screenplay is pretty far-fetched and relies heavily on coincidence but, for the most part, it plays. This thanks to superior emoting by the four principals"
		Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"The burden of this tasteless plot is partly relieved by scenic color photography and a capable cast."
		David Parkinson Radio Times	"Maureen O'Hara is excellent, but it's the posturing between gunmen Brian Keith, Chill Wills and Steve Cochran that holds the attention (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Michael Sragow The New Yorker	"The plot twists are hokey, but the atmosphere is bleak and tense, and the men’s performances nuanced"
		Time Out	"Routine in places, but enlivened by the sardonic characterisation (...) and by odd moments of visual bravura."

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