Southern Comfort (1981) is an American action/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, Lewis Smith, Franklyn Seales, Brion James and Fred Ward.
The film, set in 1973, features a Louisiana Army National Guard squad of nine on weekend maneuvers in rural bayou country as they come under threat from local Cajun settlers.