--- title: 'Southern Comfort (1981)' type: 'film' director: 'Walter Hill' released: '1981-09-21' runtime_minutes: 101 genres: - 'Action' - 'War' - 'Thriller' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/southern-comfort-1981' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083111/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Southern Comfort (1981) 1981 · 101 min · Action, War, Thriller · United States ## Synopsis Southern Comfort is a 1981 American independent Southern Gothic 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [Walter Hill](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-hill) - **Screenplay:** [Walter Hill](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-hill), [David Giler](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-giler) - **Producer:** [David Giler](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-giler) - **Original Music Composer:** [Ry Cooder](https://cinepixo.com/people/ry-cooder) - **Director of Photography:** [Andrew Laszlo](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-laszlo) ## Cast - [Fred Ward](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-ward) - [Brion James](https://cinepixo.com/people/brion-james) - [Lewis Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/lewis-smith) - [Franklyn Seales](https://cinepixo.com/people/franklyn-seales) - [T. K. Carter](https://cinepixo.com/people/t-k-carter) - [Keith Carradine](https://cinepixo.com/people/keith-carradine) - [Sonny Landham](https://cinepixo.com/people/sonny-landham) - [Powers Boothe](https://cinepixo.com/people/powers-boothe) - [Peter Coyote](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-coyote) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/southern-comfort-1981 Film facts: Wikidata (Q8884557); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.