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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 who flee the draft during the American Civil War to seek their fortune and freedom on the unforgiving American frontier. [1]
Dec 22, 1972 · Bad Company: Directed by Robert Benton. With Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis, David Huddleston. A God-fearing Ohio boy dodging the Civil War draft arrives in St. Joseph, MO where he joins up with a hardscrabble group of like runaways heading west.
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- Adventure, Drama, Western
- Robert Benton
- 1972-12-22
Here, the pathos and desperation of the situation are sabotaged by Benton and Newman's willingness to go for a laugh. The movie's hero is Drew Dixon ( Barry Brown ), a straight arrow from a Methodist family in Ohio.
Bad Company - (Original Trailer) Civil War draft dodgers head West to build new lives as outlaws in Robert Benton's Bad Company (1972) starring Jeff Bridges.
- Robert Benton, Howard Koch Jr., Miles Tilton
- Jeff Bridges
Several young draft dodgers head West to their deaths in this fatalistic reworking of OLIVER TWIST set in 1863 America - Jeff Bridges as the Artful Dodger, Barry Brown as Oliver, and David Huddleston as a sort of Fagin.
Play Trailer. They're young, desperate, dangerous—a long way from home, but a short way from Hell. Overview. 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. Robert Benton. Director, Writer. David Newman.
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