After accidentally killing the son of a dance-hall woman named "Kit Tildon" (Maureen O'Hara) a former union soldier known only as "Yellowleg" (Brian Keith) decides to escort Kit (along with the body of the young boy) to another small town in Arizona so that the boy can be buried next to the grave of his father. Unfortunately, this small town happens to lie in the path of warring Apaches. To further complicate matters Kit doesn't want Yellowleg coming along and Yellowleg insists that his two companions named "Billy Keplinger" (Steve Cochran) and "Turk" (Chill Wills) accompany him. Billy complies because he wants Kit in the worst possible way and Turk simply agrees to go because of Billy. What Turk doesn't realize is that Yellowleg wants to enact vengeance upon him for something that happened 5 years earlier. Anyway, rather than reveal the rest of the story and risk spoiling the film for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this was an interesting western with an equally interesting plot. Certainly not great by any means but interesting just the same. As far as the acting was concerned I thought everyone did an adequate job with the rather odd scripts they were given. Slightly above average.
Review of The Deadly Companions
