Bad Company (1931 film)

Bad Company is a 1931 American PreCode gangster film directed and cowritten by Tay Garnett with Tom Buckingham based on Jack Laits 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 Gangsters Wife and The Mad Marriage. 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.

Steve wishes to leave the rackets but Goldie reintroduces him to his future fatherinlaw, 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 gangsters boat where he is ambushed and nearly killed by their machine gun. Helen vows revenge on Goldie.

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