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Southern Comfort (1981) is an American thriller film directed by Walter Hill, working from a script by Hill,
longtime collaborator David Giler, and Michael Kane. It featured Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Alan Autry,
Les Lannom, Peter Coyote, T. K. Carter, Fred Ward, Lewis Smith, Carlos Brown, Franklyn Seales and Brion
James.[1]

The film, set in 1973, features a Louisiana National Guard squad of nine on weekend maneuvers in rural bayou
country as they come under threat from local Cajun settlers.

Members of a patrol of Louisiana Army National Guardsmen are meeting in the Bayou's swamps for weekend maneuvers.
Corporal Hardin (Boothe), a cynical transfer from the Texas National Guard, is disgusted with the behavior and
arrogance of his new squad. A married man, he wants no part of a date with prostitutes that PFC Spencer (Carradine)
has waiting for the men.

Nevertheless, he is befriended by the amiable Spencer, the two seeming to agree that they are the only level-headed
soldiers in the squad.

In the swamp, the patrol gets disoriented and will need to turn back unless they steal several pirogues, or cajun
canoes, at a camp site. They end up frightening and angering local Cajun hunters who return in time to see their
boats being taken. Pfc. Stuckey (Smith) fires blanks from his M-60 machine gun at the Cajuns as a prank. The frightened
Cajuns fire back, killing the squad leader, Staff Sgt. Poole (Coyote).

The second-in-command, Sgt. Casper (Lannom), orders the squad to continue the mission. But with only a few live
rounds of ammunition, they feel vulnerable. Upon reaching the shack of a local Cajun hunter and poacher (Brion James),
they arrest him. An emotionally unstable soldier, Cpl. "Coach" Bowden (Autry), then uses explosives to blow up the house.