---
title: 'Bad Company (1931)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Tay Garnett'
released: '1931-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 76
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/bad-company-1931'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021634/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Bad Company (1931)

1931 · 76 min · Drama, Crime · United States


## Synopsis

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. 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.
The film adapts a novel by Jack Lait.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Tay Garnett](https://cinepixo.com/people/tay-garnett)
- **Screenplay:** [Tay Garnett](https://cinepixo.com/people/tay-garnett), [Tom Buckingham](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-buckingham), [Jack Lait](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-lait)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Arthur Lange](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-lange)
- **Producer:** [Harry Joe Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-joe-brown), [Charles R. Rogers](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-r-rogers)
- **Director of Photography:** [Arthur Charles Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-charles-miller), [Joseph F. Biroc](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-f-biroc), [Milton Krasner](https://cinepixo.com/people/milton-krasner), [George E. Diskant](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-e-diskant), [Clarence Slifer](https://cinepixo.com/people/clarence-slifer)

## Cast

- [Al Herman](https://cinepixo.com/people/al-herman) as Pearson
- [Dell Henderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/dell-henderson)
- [Bobby Dunn](https://cinepixo.com/people/bobby-dunn)
- [Paul Hurst](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-hurst) as Goldie's Butler
- [Harry Carey](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-carey-2) as McBaine
- [Robert Keith](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-keith)
- [Harold Goodwin](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-goodwin) as Conway
- [Kenneth Thomson](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenneth-thomson) as Barnes
- [Frank Conroy](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-conroy) as Markham King
- [Larry Steers](https://cinepixo.com/people/larry-steers)
- [Frank McHugh](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-mchugh) as Doc
- [Carl Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-miller)
- [Margaret Mann](https://cinepixo.com/people/margaret-mann)
- [William V. Mong](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-v-mong) as Henry
- [James Pier Mason](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-pier-mason)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/bad-company-1931
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