The Deadly Companions (1961)

Directors

Sam Peckinpah

Cast

Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran, Chill Wills, Strother Martin

The story

After her young son is killed in a bank robbery, the widowed dance-hall hostess Kit Tilden is determined to bury him beside his father in Siringo, now deserted and located in Apache territory. Yellowleg, the ex-Union army sergeant who accidentally killed her son, decides to help take the body across the desert to be buried, whether Kit wants help or not. He forces the other two bank robbers — Turk, a Confederate deserter; and Billy, a shootist — to accompany them.

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