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Bad Company
Set during the Civil War, Bad Company stars Barry Brown as a Northern boy, Drew Dixon, who heads West to avoid getting drafted. He falls under the spell of Jake Rumsey (Jeff Bridges), an easygoing young con artist. Drew joins Jake's gang of boy bandits, who live by their wits and try to avoid confrontation with adult criminals like Big Joe (David Huddleston). It is Drew who must eventually save Jake from hanging, even though he realizes that his intervention could lead to his own execution. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Crew Robert Gundlach - Art Director Anthea Sylbert - Costume Designer Howard W. Koch - First Assistant Director Robert Benton - Director Ralph Rosenblum - Editor Ron Kalish - Editor Harvey Schmidt - Composer (Music Score) Paul Sylbert - Production Designer Gordon Willis - Cinematographer Stanley Jaffe - Producer Audrey Blasdel-Goddard - Set Designer Audrey A. Blasdel - Set Designer Gene S. Cantamessa - Sound/Sound Designer David Newman - Screenwriter Robert Benton - Screenwriter

Bad Company
Making his assured directorial debut with an intelligently entertaining genre piece, Robert Benton takes a decidedly unsentimental view of the frontier myths of male bonding and opportunity for the Western Bad Company (1972). Set during the Civil War, Benton and Bonnie and Clyde (1967) collaborator David Newman's screenplay subtly evokes the Vietnam era in its focus on two young draft dodgers, pious Barry Brown and larcenous Jeff Bridges. Rather than a place of freedom and opportunity, the West they find is an unglamorous prairie wasteland of petty thieves, physical threats, rough justice, and shifting loyalties. Benton maintains a low-key, thoughtful tone occasionally leavened by bits of humor, while Gordon Willis' expressive, autumnal cinematography and Harvey Schmidt's piano score quietly underline the evolution of Brown's upstanding values as he confronts the West's moral relativity. Though not as well-known as such other contemporary evisionist Westerns as The Wild Bunch (1969) and Little Big Man (1970), Bad Company stands as another engaging elegy to the ultimate American myth. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
 

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General Specifications: Language Options: English Subtitle Options: English Sound Processing: DD1: Dolby Digital Mono Additional Features: none specified MPAA Rating: PG DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 92 min   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- 1. Union Army Recruiting [4:40] 2. Beaten and Robbed [5:47] 3. Kitchen Fight [3:31] 4. The New Boy [7:55] 5. Living Off the Land [1:13] 6. For Sale [4:56] 7. Wake up Call [4:53] 8. A Trade [2:29] 9. Two Botched Robberies [7:01] 10. More Bad Luck [4:42] 11. Gunplay [6:23] 12. The Truth Is Revealed [3:29] 13. Going After Jake [1:32] 14. Partners [5:41]