Bad Company is directed and co-written by Robert Benton. The film opens with some soldiers going inside a house and dragging out a boy in a dress and throwing them in a wagon with other boys who have been avoiding conscription. The film was released in an era when some American men were avoiding the Vietnam draft for real.
Barry Brown is one such boy who is given some money by his parents and told to skip town and escape the draft but encounters Jeff Bridges who takes his money and later they team up with his young gang to seek a fortune in the wild west frontier yet they end up with misadventures along the way.
This western is an unromanticized story where the young men on the wrong side of law fall prey to bigger and meaner men. The film is elegiac in tone yet its peppered with humour and even playfulness between the two leads as they go through mutual distrust but Bad Company has no sweet coating.
Barry Brown is one such boy who is given some money by his parents and told to skip town and escape the draft but encounters Jeff Bridges who takes his money and later they team up with his young gang to seek a fortune in the wild west frontier yet they end up with misadventures along the way.
This western is an unromanticized story where the young men on the wrong side of law fall prey to bigger and meaner men. The film is elegiac in tone yet its peppered with humour and even playfulness between the two leads as they go through mutual distrust but Bad Company has no sweet coating.