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Bad Company

They're young, desperate, dangerous—a long way from home, but a short way from Hell.

1972 · 1h 33m · PG Drama, Western
Directed by Robert Benton

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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.

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91%
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Fresh

Bad Company is an excellent film which combines wry humor and gritty action with in-depth characterizations of two youths on the lam in the Civil War west.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

Benton's first film, a Western good enough to make everything he has done since seem disappointing by comparison.

Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh

A naturalistic, irreverent and sometimes broadly comic view of a largely ignored aspect of the Civil War gives Bad Company a refreshingly good name.

Roger Greenspun, New York Times
Fresh

The movie is built as a series of more-or-less self-contained episodes, and the episodes that work are worth the effort.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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