Bad Company (1931)

Directed by

Tay Garnett

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 16m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman gets caught up in the violent world of her gangster husband. The story follows her perspective as she witnesses a massive shootout between rival mobs.

tensegrimfast-pacedvisceralgrittysuspensefulnoirish

What happens

Bad Company is a 1931 American pre-Code gangster film directed and co-written by Tay Garnett with Tom Buckingham based on Jack Lait's 1930 novel Put on the Spot. It stars Helen Twelvetrees and Ricardo Cortez. Told from the view of a woman, the working titles of this film were The Gangster's Wife and The Mad Marriage. Unlike many static early sound films, Garnett includes several scenes using a moving camera climaxing in a gigantic assault on an office building with both sides using heavy machine guns. The film adapts a novel by Jack Lait. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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