They're young, desperate, dangerous—a long way from home, but a short way from Hell.
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.
- 6.4
- 1972
- Released
- 1h 33m
Jeff Bridges
Jake Rumsey
Barry Brown
Drew Dixon
David Huddleston
Big Joe
Jerry Houser
Arthur Simms
Geoffrey Lewis
Hobbs
Ed Lauter
Orin
John Savage
Loney
Jim Davis
Marshal
Damon Douglas
Jim Bob LoganJoshua Hill Lewis
Boog Bookin
John Quade
Nolan
Jean Allison
Mrs. Dixon
Ned Wertimer
Mr. Dixon
Raymond Guth
JacksonMonika Henreid
Min
Charles Tyner
Ted Gehring
Claudia Bryar
Todd Martin
Released
en
- #runaway
- #marshal
- #loyalty
- #missouri
- #betrayal
- #draft dodger
- #19th century
Reviews
Say, how'd that Jane Eyre turn out? Bad Company is directed by Robert Benton and Benton co-writes the screenplay with David Newman. It stars Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis, David Huddleston and John Savage. Music is by Harvey Schmidt and cinematography by Gordon Willis. Young men dodging the Union Army draft for the Civil War escape to the West in the hope of finding fortune and freedo