Left with only a mule, Jake and Drew wander aimlessly. The gang finally disintegrates for good when the Logan brothers rob Jake and Drew, taking his brother's watch and the horses. Flat broke, the gang tries unsuccessfully to mount a string of robberies, which results in Arthur running away with a stagecoach (which he was supposed to be robbing) and Boog being shot and killed while running with a pie stolen from a window sill. During the robbery, Jake aims his gun at Big Joe, but doesn't have the nerve to fire. The following morning, Big Joe ( David Huddleston) and his thugs, led by Hobbs ( Geoffrey Lewis), come upon the boys while they are still asleep. The settler offers his wife to all six boys for $10. The next day, a settler and his wife are returning from the West, where they went bust. He demonstrates how to do it, but his barely contained disgust reveals that he is skinning his first rabbit. Jake is stunned to realize that no one in the gang knows how to clean the rabbit. Jake orders Boog to clean the rabbit, but Boog declines. When they spy a rabbit, all six of them shoot at it, barely managing to kill it. At night, Drew reads to everyone from Jane Eyre. The gang heads West, hoping to improve their fortunes. Drew agrees and claims to have robbed a hardware store, when in fact he simply took $12 from his boot where he is hiding his parents' money. Loney demands that Drew demonstrate his worth by committing a robbery and bringing in some money. Jake introduces Drew to his gang of thieves: the brothers Jim Bob (Damon Cofer) and Loney Logan ( John Savage), Arthur Simms ( Jerry Houser), and the ten-year-old Boog Bookin (Joshua Hill Lewis). After a long struggle, Jake finally bests Drew and convinces him that he has no choice but to join his gang, as the Army will catch him if he tries to board a wagon train as is his plan. Once inside, he purloins various household items until Drew sees him and attacks, demanding his money back. While Drew is recovering at a minister's house, Jake arrives to return the purse that one of his gang stole from the minister's wife, hoping to collect a reward. Jake runs a gang of petty thieves who steal purses and rob children of their pocket change. Joseph, Missouri, Drew is approached by Jake Rumsey ( Jeff Bridges) who pistol-whips him and takes some of his money in an alley. His parents give him $100 and urge him to go West, giving him their picture and his brother's watch as mementos. When the soldiers leave, Drew emerges from his hiding place. She explains that she has already lost one son to the war. At the Dixon home, the soldiers search for Drew ( Barry Brown) despite his mother's protest. The soldiers throw the boy in a wagon with other boys, one of whom is also dressed as a woman to avoid conscription. Moments later, they exit, dragging a boy in a dress who is frantically resisting them. The film is often credited with inspiring the name of the classic rock band of the seventies Bad Company which according to Paul Rodgers (the bands singer) is incorrect and the name is in fact taken from an illustration in a Victorian book of morals he once perused.Ī group of soldiers pulls up to a modest white house and goes inside. Their initial eagerness to be outlaws soon abates, however, when the boys are confronted with the realities of preying on others in a nation ravaged by war and exploitation. Later classified by critics as an " acid western", Bad Company attempts in many ways to demythologize the American West in its portrayal of young men forced by circumstance and drawn by romanticized accounts to forge new lives for themselves on the wrong side of the law. 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. Bad Company is a 1972 American Western film directed by Robert Benton, who also co-wrote the film with David Newman.
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