An ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son and tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.An ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son and tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.An ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son and tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.
- Cal, General Store
- (as Jim O'Hara)
- Bartender
- (uncredited)
- Gambler
- (uncredited)
- Card Sharp
- (uncredited)
- Gambler
- (uncredited)
- Apache Indian
- (uncredited)
- Gambler
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaMaureen O'Hara, her brother Charles B. Fitzsimons and writer Albert Sidney Fleischman formed Carousel Productions in order to get the film made. Sam Peckinpah was hired for $15,000, Brian Keith was paid $30,000; the entire picture was done for $300,000. Another brother, James O'Hara, has a small role in the opening scenes.
- GoofsWhen the posse brings Turk out of the church at the end of the film he has a noose around his neck that is removed but it is never shown or explained how he ended up with a rope around his neck to begin with. It wasn't there when he was left in the church.
- Quotes
Yellowleg: You don't know me well enough to hate me that much. Hating is a subject I know a little something about. You got to be careful it don't bite you back. I know somebody who spent five years looking for a man he hated. Hating and wanting revenge was all that kept him alive. He spent all those years tracking that other man down, and when he caught up with him, it was the worst day of his life. He'd get his revenge all right, but then he'd lose the one thing he had to live for.
- Alternate versionsThe print distributed by UPA for television in the seventies was in black and white.
- ConnectionsEdited into Cynful Movies: Dangerous Companions (2019)
- SoundtracksRock of Ages
(uncredited)
Lyrics by Augustus Montague Toplady and music by Thomas Hastings
Sung in the church bar
"The Deadly Companions" is the first feature of the great director Sam Peckinpah after six years directing Westerns for television. The credible story is a tale of revenge and redemption with flawed characters. Forty-one year old Maureen O'Hara is extremely gorgeous in the role of a widow humiliated by the locals after the death of her unknown husband and her survival as "dancer" of a cabaret with her son considered bastard by the population. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Parceiros da Morte" ("Partners of Death")
- claudio_carvalho
- Dec 22, 2008
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- Also known as
- Trigger Happy
- Filming locations
- Old Tucson - 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona, USA(photographed at the town of "Old Tucson")
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1