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Hard Times (1975)

PG 10/08/1975 (US) Drama, Action, Crime 1h 33m

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New Orleans, 1933. In those days words didn't say much.

Overview

In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money to set up fights for Chaney, but Speed gambles away any winnings.

Walter Hill

Director, Screenplay
Bryan Gindoff

Screenplay, Story
Bruce Henstell

Screenplay, Story

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Charles Bronson

Chaney
James Coburn

Spencer "Speed" Weed
Jill Ireland

Lucy Simpson
Strother Martin

Poe
Margaret Blye

Gayleen Schoonover
Michael McGuire

Gandil
Felice Orlandi

Le Beau
Edward Walsh

Pettibon
Bruce Glover

Doty
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A review by John Chard

80%

Written by John Chard on May 30, 2019

You're not going to do it for free.

Hard Times sees Charles Bronson play Chaney, a drifter who travels to Louisiana during the Great Depression and begins competing in illegal bare-knuckled boxing matches that are set up by his new found partner Spencer 'Speed' Weed (James Coburn). Directed by Walter Hill on his directorial debut & produced by Lawrence Gordon, the film also stars Jill Ireland, Strother Martin, Margaret Blye, Michael McGuire & Robert Tessier.

Hard Times, if you pardon the pun, pulls no punches, it's tightly scripted (Walter Hill in conjunction with Bryan Gindoff & Bruce... read the rest.

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