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Southern Comfort

Movie (1981)

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.

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Released:	Sep 25th, 1981
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Southern Comfort Main Cast

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Keith Carradine
plays Pfc. Spencer

Powers Boothe
plays Cpl. Charles Hardin

Fred Ward
plays Cpl. Lonnie Reece

Franklyn Seales
plays Pfc. Simms

T.K. Carter
plays Pfc. Tyrone Cribbs

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This film has been likened to the earlier movie Deliverance which was made and released about nine years earlier. Some movie posters for this picture even ran a tagline saying "Not since "Deliverance"...". Southern Comfort is actually set in 1973, which is in the same era as Deliverance. Whereas that movie was set on the Cahulawassee River, this film is set in the Louisiana Bayou.
This movie's title was intended to utilize irony. Southern Comfort, set in the American South and in a swamp environment that is not comfortable, but harsh and dangerous.
The song "Parlez nous à boire", heard towards the end of this movie, was actually sung by Dewey Balfa, a Cajun Indian musician who performed the traditional Cajun Indian music in the film.
After this movie was made and released, the Cajun Indian culture would be seen in again in such other 1980s movies as No Mercy, The Big Easy (1986), Angel Heart and Belizaire the Cajun (1986).

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