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The Deadly Companions

Category: Western

Rating: M

Rating Info: Medium Level Violence

Language: English

Directors: Sam Peckinpah

Actors: Billy Vaughan, Brian Keith, Chill Wills, James O'Hara, Maureen O'Hara, Peter O'Crotty, Steve Cochran, Strother Martin, Will Wright

Info: With its small cast, character-driven story, and modest production values, Sam Peckinpah's first feature film seems very like another of his TV Western dramas--just one that happened to get shot in Panavision. The director's favorite TV actor, Brian Keith, plays a surly loner named Yellowleg who ventures into Indian country with a dance-hall girl (Maureen O'Hara), the corpse of her little boy, and a pair of marginally human specimens (Steve Cochran and Chill Wills) who more than justify the title. Everybody has, or seems to have, a guilty or shameful secret: Why does Yellowleg keep his hat on? Was Kit (O'Hara) a widow, or a whore? Action, menace, and ethical dialogues come and go pretty much according to TV rhythms, and the visuals and editing are conventional. But there's enough quirky character work and offbeat mood-making to hint at the singular filmmaker soon to arrive big-time