Southern Comfort

Southern Comfort is a 1981 film directed by Walter Hill. It stars Keith Carradine and Powers Boothe. The story follows a group of undisciplined Louisiana Army National Guardsmen who are training in the Louisiana swamps. After the soldiers steal some pirogues, they end up frightening and angering local Cajun hunters.

Plot
Southern Comfort is set in Louisiana in 1973, and follows a group of soldiers in the Louisiana National Guard. When on the training mission they steal some Cajun canoes. They end up frightening and angering local Cajun hunters as they return in time to see their boats being taken. PFC Stuckey fires blanks from his M60 machine gun at the Cajuns as a prank. The threatened Cajuns fire back, killing the squad leader.

Cast

 * Keith Carradine as Pfc. Spencer
 * Powers Boothe as Cpl. Hardin
 * Fred Ward as Cpl. Lonnie Reece
 * Franklyn Seales as Pfc. Simms
 * T. K. Carter as Pfc. Tyrone Cribbs
 * Lewis Smith as Pfc. Stuckey
 * Les Lannom as Sgt. Casper
 * Peter Coyote as Staff Sgt. Crawford Poole
 * Alan Autry as "Coach" Bowden
 * Brion James as Cajun Trapper
 * Sonny Landham as a Hunter
 * Allan Graf as a Hunter
 * Ned Dowd as a Hunter
 * Rob Ryder as a Hunter
 * Greg Guirard as a Cajun Couple
 * June Borel as a Cajun Couple
 * Jeanne-Louise Bulliard as a Cajun Dancer
 * Orel Borel as a Cajun Dancer
 * Jeannie Spector as a Cajun Dancer
 * Marc Savoy as a Cajun Musician
 * Frank Savoyas a Cajun Musician
 * Dewey Balfa as a Cajun Musician
 * John Stelly as a Cajun Musician