Southern Comfort

1981 · 105 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 23,071 VOTES · DIR. Walter Hill

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Overview

A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,129 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:29 Left, right, left, left, left...
00:03:19 This is new low, Spencer, even for you.
00:06:00 For those of you who are interested
00:12:45 Think they float?
00:16:54 Casper, get your boat over to that point of land now.
00:21:11 I say we leave him unless you wanna carry him.
00:24:59 Some kind of military secret or something?
00:28:13 Soon as we get up to the rendezvous
00:31:06 - Surprise is the key. - Hey, Casper.
00:35:00 Yeah, he shined his last gator.
00:38:02 Then he can stand trial.
00:42:46 Don't worry about that, Hardin.
00:46:14 Interstate's north. If you ask me, that's not where we're headed
00:49:51 I wanna know what the fuck's going on here.
00:53:04 Now, look. They didn't get us and they're not gonna.
00:55:51 Maybe they want this trapper back. Maybe he's all they want.
00:59:14 Come on.
01:04:24 Reece is dead.
01:07:43 (THUNDER ROLLS)
01:13:06 How the hell are we supposed to fight with that?
01:20:18 I'm not supposed to be here.
01:24:20 I wanna live.
01:30:24 Laissez es bons temps rouler.
01:42:35 (SOUND OF HELICOPTER SLOWS DOWN)

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,129
Dialogue density10.8 lines / min
First line00:00:29
Final line01:42:35

Production Record

DirectorWalter Hill
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes23,071