MOVIE/TV SHOW
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ROLE
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GOOD GUY
OR BAD GUY?
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Our Gang comedies
(1933-44)
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Street urchin, Mickey—
whiny, but cute.
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Good
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Red Ryder series
(1944-47)
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Little Beaver, Indian
sidekick of hero cowboy
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Good
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The Treasure of the
Sierra Madre (1948)
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Mexican boy who sells
Bogart a lottery ticket
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Depends on how you
feel about the lottery.
In this case, good.
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Rumble on the Docks
(1956)
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Street gang member
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Bad
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Revolt in the Big
House (1958)
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Convict
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He’s an inmate—but a
nice inmate. Flip a coin.
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Pork Chop Hill (1959)
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Private Velie
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He fights for his
country—how bad can
he be?
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The Purple Gang
(1960)
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Sociopathic teen
hoodlum
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Almost as bad as the
movie.
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PT 109 (1963)
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Kennedy boat-mate,
Charles “Bucky” Harris
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Hey, the guy hung out
with JFK. Good.
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In Cold Blood (1967)
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Merciless killer Perry
Smith
|
Bad. Really bad. Like,
it doesn’t get much
badder than this.
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Tell Them Willie Boy Is
Here (1969)
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Native American on the
lam for killing girlfriend's
father
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Good. (It was self-
defense. Honest.)
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Electra Glide in Blue
(1973)
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Arizona motorcycle cop
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Good. Think CHiPs.
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Baretta (TV Series;
1975-78)
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Detective Tony Baretta
|
Good. Cuddly, even.
Just ask the bird.
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Blood Feud (TV movie;
1983)
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Jimmy Hoffa
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Hoffa? You make the
call.
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Hell Town (TV Series;
1985)
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Ex-con-turned-‘hood
priest
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Good. (Then again,
there is that priest
element….)
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Judgment Day: The
John List Story (TV
movie; 1993)
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Church-going
suburbanite who snaps
and kills his family
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Um, that would be
bad.
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Money Train (1995)
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Corrupt NYC transit
chief (Isn’t that
redundant?)
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Bad.
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Lost Highway (1997)
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Mysterious social misfit
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Bad, in that creepy,
David Lynch sort of
way.
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