Bad Company (1972)
Directed by Robert Benton
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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Echoes of gritty ‘70s revisionist westerns – think Peter Fonda’s The Hired Hand , or Robert Benton’s Bad Company , or Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller — reverberate throughout News of the World , writer-director Paul Greengrass’ richly detailed, strongly acted and exceptionally well-crafted post-Civil War western, an uncommonly compelling drama that arrives just in time to qualify as one of the best movies released during a year when we need all the good news we can get.
Another in a long list of those overrated Oscar winners for Best Picture is directed and written by Robert Benton ("Bad Company"/"Billy Bathgate"/"The Late Show").
While Hoffman and Streep come to terms with divorce and battle over who gets the brat, Benton forsakes the eccentric and original delights of his earlier films (Bad Company, The Late Show) and turns in a very solid and professional domestic melodrama, helped no end by some very fine naturalistic performances.
This is an important movie for Robert Benton, who co-wrote "Bonnie and Clyde" and also wrote and directed "Bad Company" and "The Late Show."