Bad Company (1972)
- Directed by
- Robert Benton
- Genre
- Western film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 101 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two young men dodge the Civil War draft and head west hoping for adventure. They join a gang of other runaways but soon find that life as an outlaw is harsh and ugly.
grimearthymelancholicslow-burnbleakrealisticwistfulraw
What happens
Bad Company is a 1972 American Western film directed by Robert Benton (in his directorial debut), who also co-wrote the film with David Newman. It stars Barry Brown and Jeff Bridges as Jake Rumsey and Drew Dixon, two of a group of young men who flee the draft during the American Civil War to seek their fortune and freedom on the unforgiving American frontier. Later classified by critics as an acid Western, Bad Company attempts in many ways to demythologize the American West in its portrayal of young men forced by circumstance and drawn by romanticized accounts to forge new lives for themselves on the wrong side of the law. Their initial eagerness to be outlaws soon abates, however, when the boys are confronted with the realities of preying on others in a nation ravaged by war and exploitation. The film is often credited with inspiring the name of the classic rock band of the seventies Bad Company which according to Paul Rodgers (the band's lead singer) is incorrect and the name is in fact taken from an illustration in a Victorian book of morals he once perused. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
The Revengers (1972)
The Wrath of God (1972)
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
The Spikes Gang (1974)
A Man for Hanging (1972)
Los hijos de Satanás (1972)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.