Southern Comfort poster
Screenplay Walter Hill, David Giler, Michael Kane
Director Walter Hill

Southern Comfort

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

Release Date: 1981-09-24

Duration: 105 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Keith Carradine
    Spencer
  • Fred Ward
    Reece
  • Powers Boothe
    Hardin
  • Sonny Landham
    Hunter
  • Brion James
    Trapper
  • Alan Autry
    Bowden
  • Peter Coyote
    Poole
  • Les Lannom
    Casper
  • T.K. Carter
    Cribbs
  • Lewis Smith
    Stuckey