Bad Company (1972 film)

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name = Bad Company


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director = Robert Benton
producer = Stanley R. Jaffe
writer = Robert Benton
David Newman
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starring = Barry Brown
Jeff Bridges
music = Harvey Schmidt
cinematography = Gordon Willis
editing = Ron Kalish
Ralph Rosenblum
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = October 8, 1972
runtime = 93 min.
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0068245

"Bad Company" is a 1972 American Western film directed by Robert Benton, who also co-wrote the film with David Newman. It stars Barry Brown and Jeff Bridges as two of a group of young men that flee the draft during the American Civil War to seek their fortune and freedom on the unforgiving American frontier.

This acid western 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.

Its engaging performances, graceful direction, and the deftly written WGA-nominated screenplay from Benton and Newman all make this whimsical western perhaps one of the more tender, subtle and effective of the new "realist" Modernist Westerns of the 1960's and 70's.

The film runs approximately 93 minutes and is rated PG.

It also stars Jim Davis, David Huddleston and Geoffrey Lewis.

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*imdb title|id=0068245|title=Bad Company (1972)