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Southern Comfort (1981) 7.2
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition ... See full summary » Director:Walter Hill |
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A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience. Written by Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
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It's the land of hospitality... unless you don't belong there. See more »Parents Guide:
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25 September 1981 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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[pointing to bear traps]
Pfc. Tyrone Cribbs: What kind of women you been hanging around with?
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In an interview, director Walter Hill said of this movie's development: "David Giler and I had a deal with Fox; we were supposed to acquire and develop interesting, commercial scripts that could be produced cheaply. Alien (1979) was one of them, and _Southern Comfort_ was another. We wanted to do a survival story, and I'd already done a film in Louisiana." That movie was Hard Times (1975). See more »Goofs
When Tyrone Cribbs sees the dead deer, he makes the statement "..damn, somebody shot Rudolph". When we hear this the words don't match the movement of Cribbs's lips. He's seen saying something entirely different. See more »Quotes
Cpl. Lonnie Reece: Like steel pussies[pointing to bear traps]
Pfc. Tyrone Cribbs: What kind of women you been hanging around with?
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If the real National Guard is as inept as these dumbasses then no enemy need worry about mounting an attack at any time. I spent almost the entire couple of hours rooting for the cajuns to put these morons out of their ignorant misery. Not a bad film, but not a real winner either: there were simply to many holes for comfort. For instance, Coach went psycho way to quick, the cajuns couldn't possibly predict the route the soldiers would take in order to set traps and deposit the bodies of their buddies, and the cajuns wouldn't suddenly become lousy shots once they had the final two guardsmen trapped. Finally, could a squad of men really be this dumb? It wasn't all downhill however: the private losing his nerve and the squad leader doing the 'Rambo' like some meatheaded jerk were all to realistic. Worth seeing, but just barely.