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Bad Company (1931 film)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = Bad Company
| image = BadCompanyPoster.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Theatrical poster for film
| director = Tay Garnett
| producer = Charles R. Rogers
Harry Joe Brown
| writer = Jack Lait (novel)
Tay Garnett
Tom Buckingham
| narrator =
| starring = Helen Twelvetrees
Ricardo Cortez
| music = Arthur Lange
| cinematography =Arthur C. Miller
| editing = Claude Berkeley
| distributor = RKO Path
| released =
| runtime = 76 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English}}
'Bad Company' is a 1931 American pre-Code gangster film directed and co-written by Tay Garnett with Tom Buckingham based on Jack Lait's 1930 novel 'Put on the Spot'. It stars Helen Twelvetrees and Ricardo Cortez. Told from the view of a woman, the working titles of this film were 'The Gangster's Wife' and 'The Mad Marriage'.http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1977/Bad-Company/notes.html Unlike many static early sound films, Garnett includes several scenes using a moving camera climaxing in a gigantic assault on an office building with both sides using heavy machine guns.
Plot
Rich and beautiful Helen King is about to marry Steve Carlyle, a wealthy young professional. Unknown to Helen and her family, Steve is a legal advisor to a megalomaniac gangster Goldie Gorio.
Steve wishes to leave the rackets but Goldie reintroduces him to his future father-in-law, a rival gangster where both parties see the marriage as a symbol of peace and an end of violence in their transactions. Steve remains with Goldie and fills in for him to a visit to a rival gangster's boat where he is ambushed and nearly killed by their machine gun. Helen vows revenge on Goldie.
Cast
*Helen Twelvetrees ... Helen King
*Ricardo Cortez ... Goldie Gorio
*John Garrick ... Steve Carlyle
*Paul Hurst ... Goldie's Butler
*Frank Conroy ... Markham King
*Harry Carey ... McBaine
*Frank McHugh ... Doc
*Kenneth Thomson ... Barnes
*Arthur Stone ... Dummy
*Emma Dunn ... Emma
*William V. Mong ... Henry
*Edgar Kennedy ... Buffington
(as per AFI database.)
See also
* List of American films of 1931
* Harry Carey filmography
References
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