The Deadly Companions
– Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral p..
Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.
16 Feb 1962
English
Sam Peckinpah
Albert Sidney Fleischman (screenplay), Albert Sidney Fleischman (novel)
Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran, Chill Wills
The Civil War Yankee sergeant Yellowleg saves the cheater Turkey from hanging after a card game, and together with Turk's gunslinger buddy Billy Keplinger, they ride together to Gila City with the intention of heisting a bank. Yellowleg has a scar on the head from a man that tried to scalp him and he has been on the trail of his attacker for five years. When other bandits rob a store, Yellowleg shoots at the outlaws and accidentally kills the son of the cabaret dancer Kit Tilden and the grieving woman decides to bury her son in the town of Siringo in Apache country where her husband is buried. Yellowleg Enlists Billy and Turkey to escort Kitty and the coffin through the dangerous land.
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