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People who liked this should watch...

posted 14 years ago by steerpike_2002
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I just watched this for the first time, and was highly impressed by the grim, unforgiving tone.

It seems that many people on these boards decry the lack of acclaim that this film receives, and I agree. I also think that those who watched and liked "Bad Company" should try another relative unknown in the westerns of the early '70s, "The Culpepper Cattle Company", for another dose of unsettling realism in the Wild West.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068435/

Check it out!

[–] Eric-1226 14 years ago

There's another movie that has similar structure to this one, "The Spike's Gang," (1974) featuring three bored Mid-west farmboys (Gary Grimes, Ron Howard, Charles Martin Smith) who decide to run away from home together. They end up linking up with a notorious bank robber (played by Lee Marvin). Much like in "Bad Company," they enter into a clumsy, roving life of crime across the old West. More light-hearted and not as atmospheric as Bad Company, but still had its share of grim observations of life on the run in the old West.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072198/

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[–] activista 13 years ago

Also check out BUCK AND THE PREACHER,with Sidney Poitier (this was also his directing debut,BTW).

[–] ccorraliza 12 years ago

Little Big Man as well with Dustin Hoffman

[–] smiley_b81 12 years ago

"The Shooting" and "Ride the Whirlwind" by Monte Hellman. Also, "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" and "Badlands" if they haven't already been mentioned of course.

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[–] WarpedRecord 12 years ago

Great recommendations here, to which I'd add "There Was a Crooked Man":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066448/

[–] spud-boy 10 years ago

Another quirky western is "Barbarossa" with Willie Nelson in the title role, and Gary Busey as his apprentice outlaw. Instead of rabbits, they eat armidilloes.

[–] WarpedRecord 10 years ago

"Barbarosa" is a terrific oddball film, a great Western for people who don't like Westerns (or who think they don't).