Southern Comfort

Sep 24, 1981

1h 45m

★ 6.9

It's the land of hospitality... unless you don't belong there.

Overview

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.

Genres

Thriller

Action

Production Companies

Cinema Group Ventures

Phoenix (II)

20th Century Fox

Southern Comfort Trailers

Cast

Spencer

Keith Carradine

Hardin

Powers Boothe

Reece

Fred Ward

Simms

Franklyn Seales

Cribbs

T.K. Carter

Stuckey

Lewis Smith

Casper

Les Lannom

Poole

Peter Coyote

Bowden

Alan Autry

Trapper

Brion James

Hunter

Sonny Landham

Hunter

Allan Graf

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