Badlands (1973)
Adventure|Crime|Drama|Romance|Thriller
In Fort Dupre, South Dakota, in 1959, Kit Carruthers, a twenty-five-year-old garbageman, starts courting fifteen-year-old Holly Sargis. Holly, who reads pop music and movie magazines, is infatuated with Kit. She thinks he looks like actor James Dean. But her widower father, a sign painter, shoots her dog when he finds out she’s been seeing Kit, and forbids him to come near her. While Holly watches with mixed emotions, Kit kills her father with a pistol. They burn down the house and take off on a killing spree throughout the Midwest.
Director:Terrence Malick
Writer:Terrence Malick (written by)
Genre:Adventure | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Tagline:He was 25 years old. He combed his hair like James Dean. She was 15. She took music lessons and could twirl a baton. For a while they lived together in a tree house. In 1959, she watched while he killed a lot of people.
Plot:Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950’s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Plot Keywords:Killing Spree | Murder | Badlands | Montana | 1950s
Awards:Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins
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Cast
Martin Sheen … Kit
Sissy Spacek … Holly
Warren Oates … Father
Ramon Bieri … Cato
Alan Vint … Deputy
Gary Littlejohn … Sheriff
John Carter … Rich Man
Bryan Montgomery … Boy
Gail Threlkeld … Girl
Charles Fitzpatrick … Clerk
Howard Ragsdale … Boss
John Womack Jr. … Trooper
Dona Baldwin … Maid
Ben Bravo … Gas attendant
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