The Bad Man is a 1920 three-act comedy play by American playwright Porter Emerson Browne.
Gilbert Jones, a young American, is the ostensible owner of the ranch, but the $10,000 with which he bought it was borrowed from his uncle, Henry Smith of Bangor, Maine, who is living with him.
A year after the purchase young Jones enlisted in the American army, saw service in France, and when he returned found his property practically worthless.
Produced at the Comedy Theatre by William H. Harris Jr. and staged by Lester Lonergan, the play ran from August 30, 1920, until June 1921.
The cast included Orson Welles (Pancho Lopez), Ida Lupino (Lucia Pell), Frank Readick (Gilbert Phebbs), Ray Collins (Uncle Phipps), William Alland (Morgan Pell), Diana Stevens (Dot), Everett Sloane (Louie) and Edward Jerome (Pedro).