The Harder They Come (Blu-ray)
With a Piece in His Hand He Takes on the Man!
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 3
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 3 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: August 20, 2019
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jimmy Cliff | |
Performer: | Ras Daniel Hartman, Toots & the Maytals, Janet Barkley, Basil Keane & Carl Bradshaw | |
Directed by | Perry Henzell | |
Edited by | Seicland Anderson, Richard White & John Victor Smith | |
Music by | Toots & the Maytals & Jimmy Cliff | |
Screenwriting by | Perry Henzell & Trevor Rhone | |
Produced by | Perry Henzell | |
Director of Photography: | Frank St. Juste, David McDonald & Peter Jessop |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Movie aficionados appreciate it as the definition of tuffer-than-tuff gangster cool...
Entertainment Weekly
You should by all means see The Harder They Come. There's not even the slightest chance you'll be disappointed.
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Los Angeles Free Press
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.
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Variety
With this 1972 cult hit, Jamaican filmmaker Perry Henzell produced a proud, forthright indictment of national and personal corruption.
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Chicago Reader
The themes present in the film remain particularly relevant in today's climate.
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Ian Thomas Malone
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.
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Time Out
4 stars out of 5 -- It's elevated to greatness by one thing...an unmatchable reggae-tastic soundtrack.
Total Film
Product Description:
Reggae music serves as both soundtrack and plot element in THE HARDER THEY COME, a groundbreaking classic starring music legend Jimmy Cliff. Such hits as "You Can Get It If You Really Want," "Many Rivers to Cross," and "Sitting in Limbo," punctuate the film's action, introducing reggae and its Jamaican roots to a worldwide audience. Here, Cliff plays Ivan Martin, a poor country boy who goes to the city to make money, becoming a street rebel and a pop idol overnight. In Kingston, Ivan finds nothing but corruption. The record company offers him a mere $20 to release his single, "The Harder They Come." Ivan takes to the streets, where he is ensnared by crime. After brutally knifing a man, he serves a prison sentence. Once free, he supports himself by selling marijuana, protecting himself from legal persecution by giving the cops a cut. But that doesn't keep him from getting mixed up in a police raid. Ivan quickly develops a reputation as a Kingston criminal, and when his single "The Harder They Come" is finally released, it fuels his bad-boy notoriety, culminating in a tragic conclusion. Perry Henzel's 1973 film has become a cult classic and was an important factor in bringing reggae music to the fore. The movie served as a device for promoting Cliff's album and bringing him visibility as a primary Jamaican artist, on a par with Bob Marley.
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- Sales Rank: 63,537
- UPC: 826663201000
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