"Bad Company" is a gangster flick. It's not the best, but it's OK. I took exception with one part while the rest was decent.
A gangster named Steve Carlyle (John Garrick) was in love with an unwitting woman named Helen King (Helen Twelvetrees). What Helen didn't know was that she was about to marry a gangster AND that her brother was a gangster. Steve worked for Goldie Gorio (Ricardo Cortez) who was a rival to Markham 'Mark' King (Frank Conroy), Helen's brother. A union between Steve, one of Goldie's men, and Helen, Markham's sister, would mean an end to the violence between the two gangs. Both Goldie and Markham were for it.
Then Goldie saw Helen, and like the old fable about the general who saw the wife of one of his soldiers, Goldie wanted to get rid of Steve to have Helen to himself.
He almost got Steve killed, but Steve survived. What happened next is what I took exception with.
The word got back to Mark that Goldie set up Steve. Mark's natural reaction was to take out Goldie. Fine. But how he decided to do it was nothing short of suicide. He went to Goldie's HQ to have it out with him.
Really!?
You just don't do that. You never go to the enemies territory to fight them unless you have overwhelming numbers and firepower which Mark did not have. Predictably, he and his gang were wiped out.
The next one to make a dumb move was Helen. She decided she'd go to Goldie's place with a little pea shooter and a weak constitution. He took her gun within minutes of her being there. She was about to be on Goldie's desert menu for whatever he wanted from her until the cops showed up guns a' blazing.
Helen survived her Goldie encounter with her life and dignity intact, but not due to bravery or smarts. Luckily she had Hollywood scriptwriters to prevent the damsel from anymore grief than her brother being killed and her husband being nearly killed.
As I stated, this was OK as far as gangster pictures go. It was aided by a grand showdown at the end between the cops and Goldie's men. The shootout lasted so long I wonder if it was a cinematic record at that time. It lasted a couple of minutes or more with around a dozen shooters and hundreds of rounds. Go big or go home I guess.
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A gangster named Steve Carlyle (John Garrick) was in love with an unwitting woman named Helen King (Helen Twelvetrees). What Helen didn't know was that she was about to marry a gangster AND that her brother was a gangster. Steve worked for Goldie Gorio (Ricardo Cortez) who was a rival to Markham 'Mark' King (Frank Conroy), Helen's brother. A union between Steve, one of Goldie's men, and Helen, Markham's sister, would mean an end to the violence between the two gangs. Both Goldie and Markham were for it.
Then Goldie saw Helen, and like the old fable about the general who saw the wife of one of his soldiers, Goldie wanted to get rid of Steve to have Helen to himself.
He almost got Steve killed, but Steve survived. What happened next is what I took exception with.
The word got back to Mark that Goldie set up Steve. Mark's natural reaction was to take out Goldie. Fine. But how he decided to do it was nothing short of suicide. He went to Goldie's HQ to have it out with him.
Really!?
You just don't do that. You never go to the enemies territory to fight them unless you have overwhelming numbers and firepower which Mark did not have. Predictably, he and his gang were wiped out.
The next one to make a dumb move was Helen. She decided she'd go to Goldie's place with a little pea shooter and a weak constitution. He took her gun within minutes of her being there. She was about to be on Goldie's desert menu for whatever he wanted from her until the cops showed up guns a' blazing.
Helen survived her Goldie encounter with her life and dignity intact, but not due to bravery or smarts. Luckily she had Hollywood scriptwriters to prevent the damsel from anymore grief than her brother being killed and her husband being nearly killed.
As I stated, this was OK as far as gangster pictures go. It was aided by a grand showdown at the end between the cops and Goldie's men. The shootout lasted so long I wonder if it was a cinematic record at that time. It lasted a couple of minutes or more with around a dozen shooters and hundreds of rounds. Go big or go home I guess.
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