Badlands

Badlands (1974)

Timing: 1:34 (94 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1974-01-05

Country

United States

Production

Pressman-Williams, Jill Jakes Production

Genre

Crime, Drama, Romance

Budget

$450 000

Revenue

$52 949

Website

https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/badlands

Director

Terrence Malick

Actors

Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint, Gary Littlejohn, John Carter, Bryan Montgomery, Gail Threlkeld, Charles Fitzpatrick
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Scenario

Terrence Malick

Producer

Terrence Malick, Edward R. Pressman

Operator

Tak Fujimoto

Composer

George Aliceson Tipton

Artist

Audition

Dianne Crittenden

Editing

Billy Weber, Robert Estrin
All team (42)

• The plot of the film is based on real events that occurred in 1958. The prototypes for the main characters, Kit and Holly, were a couple in love, Charlie Starkweather and Caril Fugate, who terrorized American residents with a series of bloody murders.
• The cameo role played by the director himself was originally supposed to be played by another actor, but he did not show up for filming.
• Sissy Spacek met her future husband, Jack Fisk, while filming this movie.
• Don Johnson was considered for the lead male role.
• The film has been added to the National Film Registry of the United States.
• The two boys sitting on the curb under a lamppost, whom Holly sees from the house window, were played by Martin Sheen's children – Charlie and Emilio.
• In the treehouse, Holly is reading "Kon-Tiki" by Norwegian scientist and writer Thor Heyerdahl, which describes the journey of four scientists across the Pacific Ocean on a raft.
• In the treehouse, Holly is reading "Kon-Tiki" by Norwegian scientist and writer Thor Heyerdahl, which describes the voyage of four scientists across the Pacific Ocean on a raft.