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1925 film

Bad Company
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Directed by	Edward H. Griffith
Written by	George V. Hobart Arthur Hoerl
Based on	"The Ultimate Good" by John C. Brownell
Produced by	St. Regis Pictures
Starring	Madge Kennedy Conway Tearle Bigelow Cooper
Cinematography	Marcel Picard Walter Arthur
Production company	St. Regis Pictures
Distributed by	Associated Exhibitors
Release date	February 15, 1925 (1925-02-15)
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Bad Company is a 1925 American silent romantic drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith, based on a story by John C. Brownell. It stars Madge Kennedy, Conway Tearle, and Bigelow Cooper.

Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine, James Hamilton (Tearle) and his friend Peter Ewing (Cooper) aid a poorly dressed young woman who faints from exhaustion. They are then surprised when she holds them up and robs the safe. At a reception, one of the guests is Gloria Waring (Kennedy), a musical comedy star, and James, struck by her resemblance to the woman who robbed them, finds part of the costume in her automobile and confronts her. She confesses that she adopted this method to obtain her father's will in a desperate effort to prevent the fortune that was left to her brother from falling into the hands of an adventuress named Teddy. James, who has fallen in love with Gloria, offers to help her, discovers that Teddy is the young woman with whom he once had an affair. Just as Teddy and the brother Dick (Mack) are about to be married, James prevents it by claiming that Teddy is his common-law wife. Gloria will then have nothing to do with James, and he makes plans to leave for Europe. Peter discloses that the fortune was left to Gloria and that James sacrificed himself for her sake. Deciding to accept that James' affair with Teddy was just a youthful discretion, Gloria and James are reconciled.

Cast

Madge Kennedy as Gloria Waring
Bigelow Cooper as Peter Ewing
Conway Tearle as James Hamilton
Lucille Lee Stewart as Teddy Lamont
Charles Emmett Mack as Dick Reynolds

Preservation

With no prints of Bad Company located in any film archives, it is a lost film.

References

The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Bad Company
Progressive Silent Film List: Bad Company at silentera.com
Sewell, Charles S. (January 24, 1925). "Bad Company; Associated Exhibitors Offers First St. Regis Production with Conway Tearle and Madge Kennedy". The Moving Picture World. 72 (4). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co.: 350, 367. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Bad Company

External links

Bad Company at IMDb
Synopsis at AllMovie
Lobby card and still at silenthollywood.com

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Films directed by Edward H. Griffith

The Awakening of Ruth (1917)
Barnaby Lee (1917)
Billy and the Big Stick (1917)
One Touch of Nature (1917)
The Law of the North (1917)
Your Obedient Servant (1917)
The End of the Road (1919)
Babs (1920)
The Garter Girl (1920)
The Vice of Fools (1920)
Dawn of the East (1921)
If Women Only Knew (1921)
The Land of Hope (1921)
Scrambled Wives (1921)
Free Air (1922)
The Go-Getter (1923)
Unseeing Eyes (1923)
Week End Husbands (1924)
Another Scandal (1924)
Bad Company (1925)
Headlines (1925)
White Mice (1926)
Atta Boy (1926)
Alias the Lone Wolf (1927)
The Opening Night (1927)
Afraid to Love (1927)
The Price of Honor (1927)
Captain Swagger (1928)
Hold 'Em Yale (1928)
The Shady Lady (1928)
Love Over Night (1928)
Paris Bound (1929)
Rich People (1929)
Holiday (1930)
Beyond Victory (1931)
Rebound (1931)
The Animal Kingdom (1932)
Lady with a Past (1932)
Another Language (1933)
Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)
No More Ladies (1935)
Next Time We Love (1936)
Ladies in Love (1936)
Cafe Metropole (1937)
I'll Take Romance (1937)
Honeymoon in Bali (1939)
Cafe Society (1939)
Safari (1940)
Virginia (1941)
Bahama Passage (1941)
One Night in Lisbon (1941)
The Sky's the Limit (1943)
Young and Willing (1943)
Perilous Holiday (1946)

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