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Budget. $2.7 million [1] or $3.1 million [2] Box office. $26.5 million [3] Hard Times[a] is a 1975 action drama sport film marking the directorial debut of Walter Hill. It stars Charles Bronson as Chaney, a mysterious drifter freighthopping through Louisiana during the Great Depression, who proves indomitable in illegal bare-knuckled boxing ...
Hard Times: Directed by Walter Hill. With Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin. The saga of a drifter who turns to illicit bare-knuckle boxing in Depression-era New Orleans.
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- Crime, Drama, Sport
- Walter Hill
- 1975-08-13
Description by Wikipedia. Hard Times is a 1975 film starring Charles Bronson as Chaney, a drifter who travels to Louisiana during the Great Depression and begins competing in illegal bare-knuckled boxing matches. The movie was Walter Hill's directorial debut.
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Hard Times is a 1975 action film marking the directorial debut of Walter Hill. It stars Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland and Strother Martin. During the Great Depression, Chaney (Charles Bronson) bare-knuckle boxes to survive. Speed (James Coburn), an avid gambler, recognizes his talent and becomes his manager. They hire a cut man named Poe (Strother Martin), and Speed borrows cash ...
Mar 17, 2017 · Hard Times is a stripped back and spare American depression chronicle, a controlled and almost zen tale of the desperate and lonely in 1930’s Louisiana compared with the bawdier, effervescing and irreverent depictions of the south during the depression of Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) or Scorsese’s Boxcar Bertha (1972). As a boxing or combat film it is almost restrained, the fight ...
Roger Ebert. October 14, 1975. 3 min read. “Hard Times” is a powerful, brutal film containing a definitive Charles Bronson performance. He plays Chaney, a man of few words and no past, who rides the rails to New Orleans for the winter and tries to win some money by fist fighting. It’s in the middle of the Depression.
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