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The Deadly Companions | Year: 1961 Classification: Western Directed: - Sam Peckinpah Actors/Actresses: - Maureen O'Hara - Brian Keith before the blood While Sam Peckinpah is best known for blood ballets such as The Wild Bunch, and Cross of Iron, it should be known that he was making movies before blood bags were used. Deadly Companions marked his feature debut and while it doesn't stand up to his best films(Wild Bunch, Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia,and Ride the High Country) its a nice start to a long and brilliant career. The DVD lacks extras and is standard format, which should be noted that a lot of older films were shot with a TV standard 1:33:1 frame. But this movie has been all but extinct except for shotty old video tapes for over a decade. Only for die-hard PECKINPAH fans! This edition of Deadly Comapnions is a very poor excuse to release his movie for a newer audience. The film itself is a decent western and it is interesting for us that love Sam's films to see his first western. My main concern is the fact that the film is shown in full screen. This shows that even after his death he is still being mistreated by producers and production companies. Most of his film suffer very much from cropping so does this one. I dont mind that it lack any extras but you should at least be able to see it in it's proper ratio. Buy only if you want to see an early Peckinpah film that is real hard to get in these days. Deadly boring! This was Peckinpah's first directing job on a feature movie after directing some TV Westerns. The result is very poor. Bad storyline, bad acting - nothing much is working out well here. The director was well aware of it - but blamed it on the producers interference in the cutting procedure. Must be Maureen O'Hara's worst performance ever! Amazing, that the young director made the splended "Ride the high country" directly after this misfire! Buy The Deadly Companions at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on The Deadly Companions Search with the Priority Search Engine on The Deadly Companions This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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