{"id":30077,"date":"2022-06-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30077"},"modified":"2022-06-28T06:16:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T10:16:52","slug":"the-deadly-companions-starring-maureen-ohara-brian-keith-1961-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30077","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Deadly Companions&#8221; Starring Maureen O&#8217;Hara &#038; Brian Keith (1961) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z062822zview_deadlycompanions.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Deadly Companions <\/strong><\/em>(1961)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Sam Peckinpah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by:\u00a0 Albert Sidney Fleischman based on his novel <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3N67cGl\"><em><strong>The Deadly Companions<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Maureen O&#8217;Hara, Brian Keith,<\/strong> <strong>Steve Cochran, Chill Wills, Strother Martin <\/strong>and <strong>Will Wright<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Trapped&#8230; by her past and the sins of the men who pursued her through a savage land!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yellowleg (Keith), a gunfighter named Billy (Cochran) and Turk (Wills) ride into a small town.\u00a0 When bank robbers come out with guns blazing, Yellowleg and Billy return fire killing the thieves.\u00a0 One of Yellowleg&#8217;s shots misses and kills a young boy.\u00a0 The boy&#8217;s grieving mother, Kit (O&#8217;Hara) decides she will take her dead son to be buried next to his father.\u00a0 To do this she will have to pass through dangerous Indian country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yellowleg offers to accompany her, but Kit refuses.\u00a0 Despite her not wanting his help, Yellowleg recruits Billy and Turk to join the journey.\u00a0 The threat of hostile Indians is real, but Kit and Yellowleg will learn too late that Billy and Turk have their own reasons for making the trip.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is Sam Peckinpah&#8217;s first time directing a feature film.\u00a0 <em>The Westerner tv series,<\/em> which starred Brian Keith, had just been cancelled. Keith had been named the lead for <em>The Deadly Companions<\/em> and he recommended Peckinpah for the director&#8217;s chair.\u00a0 Reportedly Peckinpah and Maureen O&#8217;Hara didn&#8217;t get along. At any rate, this isn&#8217;t your typical Peckinpah film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brian Keith is always good.\u00a0 Chill Wills has the ability to get laughs even playing the heavy.\u00a0 There is a love story subplot (of course) and a revenge subplot and both require a bit more suspension of disbelief than a gritty western would require.\u00a0 Still Peckinpah-lite is better than no Peckinpah at all.\u00a0 <em>The Deadly Companions<\/em> earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z062822zview_deadlycompanions2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deadly Companions (1961) Director: Sam Peckinpah Screenplay by:\u00a0 Albert Sidney Fleischman based on his novel The Deadly Companions Starring:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30095,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30077\/revisions\/30095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}