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The Harder They Come
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Ivanhoe Martin (Jimmy Cliff) arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. Wishing to become successful, Ivanhoe finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.
Ivanhoe Martin (Jimmy Cliff) arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. Wishing to become successful, Ivanhoe finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.
Actors:
Clover Lewis,
Don Topping,
Janet Bartley,
Ula Fraser,
Joanne Dunn,
Ed Bim Lewis,
Sandra Redwood,
Franco Nero,
Elijah Chambers,
Karl Leslie,
Bob Charlton,
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Clover Lewis
Don Topping
Janet Bartley
Ula Fraser
Joanne Dunn
Ed Bim Lewis
Sandra Redwood
Franco Nero
23 November 1941, San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Elijah Chambers
Karl Leslie
Bob Charlton
Director:
Perry Henzell
Perry Henzell
7 March 1936, Port Maria, St. Mary, Jamaica
Country:
International
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August 26, 2015
Predated Bob Marley's success by a year.
October 02, 2015
With this 1972 cult hit, Jamaican filmmaker Perry Henzell produced a proud, forthright indictment of national and personal corruption.
April 07, 2010
Perry Henzell's 1972 rugged reggae crime story--loosely based on a '40s-era Jamaican folk hero/criminal--plays like a musically-inspired docudrama of the raw social reality of the impoverished island nation in the '70s.
February 09, 2006
The action is as gutsy as the well-integrated score, which makes the movie's Hollywood-style gloss a little anomalous, but the basic humour and toughness emerge unscathed.
September 30, 2015
A film so assured and professional that it makes one suspect the presence of a thriving industry that has for years gone unacknowledged in Europe.
October 02, 2015
Whatever the film's shortcomings, though, the music is superb.
October 02, 2015
The Harder They Come is always exuberant, and sometimes strong, as casually surprising and effortlessly sinister as the blade sliding out of a gravity knife.
June 05, 2012
The definitive postcolonial cult-movie musical.
September 30, 2015
A gritty, realistic view of urban Jamaica that reveals the squalor of shantytowns tourists never see.
June 05, 2012
Atrocious acting, amateurish camerawork and a hackneyed story line all make for one painful slog.
October 02, 2015
Rough 'n' ready but also rather wonderful.
May 27, 2009
Perry Henzell emerges a director with a solid visual flair who can mix action and inchoate rage sans excess to give the film a taut pacing and use the local color and a basically predictable tale with a few new twists.