Western · Drama
Bad Company
They're young, desperate, dangerous—a long way from home, but a short way from Hell.
After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with a loose confederation of young vagrants.
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Top Cast
Jeff Bridges
Jake Rumsey
Barry Brown
Drew Dixon
David Huddleston
Big Joe
Jerry Houser
Arthur Simms
Geoffrey Lewis
Hobbs
Ed Lauter
Orin
John Savage
Loney
Jim Davis
Marshal
Directed by
Robert Benton
Production
Paramount PicturesReviews
John Chard
8/108/5/2018
Say, how'd that Jane Eyre turn out? Bad Company is directed by Robert Benton and Benton co-writes the screenplay with David Newman. It stars Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis, David Huddleston and John Savage. Music is by Harvey Schmidt and cinematography by Gordon Willis. Young men dodging the Union Army draft for the Civil War escape to the West in the hope of finding fortune and freedom. What actually awaits them is something completely different. The 1970s saw a slew of Westerns released that were a far cry from the golden frothy production line of the 1950s. Film makers big into the genre were quick to latch onto more sombre stories or quirky non conformist pieces. The climate of the World was changing and so directors and writers were comfortable in portraying the Wild We
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