The Deadly Companions

Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.

Cast

Maureen O'Hara

as Kit Tilden

Brian Keith

as Yellowleg

Steve Cochran

as Billy Keplinger

Chill Wills

as Turk

Strother Martin

as Parson

Will Wright

as Doctor Acton

James O'Hara

as Cal, General Store

Peter O'Crotty

as Mayor of Hila City

Billy Vaughan

as Mead Tildon Jr.

Chuck Hayward

as Card Sharp (uncredited)

Reviews

Wuchak

***Melancholic, harsh Peckinpah Western with Keith and O’Hara*** A former Union soldier, Yellowleg (Brian Keith), vengefully searches for a Confederate who tried to scalp him alive 5 years earlier. After something bad happens in an Arizona town he offers to escort a dance hall woman (Maureen O’...

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