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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Why this pick
Like Bad Company, it treats the frontier as muddy, precarious survival rather than legend, with drifting outsiders, dry period detail, and a quietly fatalistic mood.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1972 1h 33m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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AdventureDramaWestern
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
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The Hired Hand
Why this pick
A reflective, low-key revisionist Western about men trying to outgrow wandering lives; its intimate pacing and weathered visual texture closely suit Bad Company’s melancholy coming-of-age.
03
The Missouri Breaks
Why this pick
Its unsettled Missouri frontier, morally ragged characters, and distrust of Western heroics echo Bad Company’s vision of the postwar West as dangerous and improvised.
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The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Why this pick
Another offbeat, anti-romantic 1970s Western that finds humor and tension in youthful outlaw life, with a loose, lived-in historical world rather than clean genre mythology.
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Why this pick
For Bad Company’s elegiac, disillusioned take on frontier myth: a spare, dusty Western where companionship, violence, and change all carry a lingering sense of loss.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A God-fearing Ohio boy dodging the Civil War draft arrives in St. Joseph, MO where he joins up with a hardscrabble group of like runaways heading west
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Barry Brown
Drew Dixon
Geoffrey Lewis
Hobbs
Jean Allison
Mrs. Dixon
Ned Wertimer
Mr. Dixon
Raymond Guth
Jackson
John Quade
Nolan
Jeff Bridges
Drew Dixon
Jerry Houser
Arthur Simms