--- title: 'Badlands (1973)' type: 'film' director: 'Terrence Malick' released: '1973-10-13' runtime_minutes: 90 certification: 'PG' genres: - 'Drama' - 'Crime' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/badlands-1973' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069762/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Badlands (1973) 1973 · PG · 90 min · Drama, Crime · United States ## Synopsis Badlands is a 1973 American neo-noir period crime drama film written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, in his directorial debut. The film stars Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, and follows Kit Carruthers (Sheen), a 25-year-old who goes on a killing spree with his 15-year-old girlfriend Holly Sargis (Spacek). The film also stars Warren Oates and Ramon Bieri. While the story is fictional, it is loosely based on the real-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, in 1958. ## Credits - **Director:** [Terrence Malick](https://cinepixo.com/people/terrence-malick) - **Screenplay:** [Terrence Malick](https://cinepixo.com/people/terrence-malick) - **Producer:** [Terrence Malick](https://cinepixo.com/people/terrence-malick), [Edward R. Pressman](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-r-pressman) - **Original Music Composer:** [George Tipton](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-tipton) - **Director of Photography:** [Tak Fujimoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/tak-fujimoto) - **Editor:** [Robert Estrin](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-estrin) ## Cast - [Sissy Spacek](https://cinepixo.com/people/sissy-spacek) as Holly Sargis - [Ramon Bieri](https://cinepixo.com/people/ramon-bieri) as Cato - [John Carter](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-carter) - [Martin Sheen](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-sheen) as Kit Carruthers - [Gary Littlejohn](https://cinepixo.com/people/gary-littlejohn) as sheriff - [Warren Oates](https://cinepixo.com/people/warren-oates) - [Alan Vint](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-vint) - [Bryan Montgomery](https://cinepixo.com/people/bryan-montgomery) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/badlands-1973 Film facts: Wikidata (Q799202); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.