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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 matches after forming a partnership with the garrulous hustler Speed, played ...
Bronson plays an itinerant bare-knuckle street fighter in the 1930s who makes his living beating the brains out of those foolish enough to think they can take the graying tough guy. Coburn is the...
Hard Times. 1975 · 1 hr 34 min. PG. Drama · Crime · Sport. An aging, bare-knuckle street fighter in 1930's New Orleans makes his living in illegal brawls with opponents fooled into thinking they can take him. Subtitles: English. Starring: Charles Bronson James Coburn Jill Ireland Strother Martin Maggie Blye. Directed by: Walter Hill.
- Walter Hill
- January 1, 1975
- Charles Bronson
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.
- (12K)
- Crime, Drama, Sport
- Walter Hill
- 1975-08-13
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 ...
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“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.
