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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Music /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Perry Henzell
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Actors:
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Carl Bradshaw,
Basil Keane,
Winston Stona,
Janet Bartley,
Bob Charlton,
Lucia White,
Volair Johnson,
Beverly Anderson,
Jimmy Cliff
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Duration:
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120 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)52
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Plot Summary:
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A impecunious Jamaican, a 1970s anti-hero, tries to make it with a affect record but finds that payola rules. His write down purpose only be played if he signs away his rights. He turns to dealing marijuana and runs afoul of the law. As an insurrectionists fugitive, he becomes a political leading man. An outstanding reggae soundtrack underscores the thread, in exceptional the lines from the title inexpensively: "I'd rather be a free gink in my earnest than living as a marionette or a serf."
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The Harder They Come
The impolite edges and the adjacency of three editors on Jamaica's original cover indicate the struggle that director Perry Henzell had in making The Harder They Come. Afterwards established as a cult picture level distinction (as a yardstick of its influence in 1970s Britain, The Hostile encounter referenced it in 'Guns Of Brixton'), it remains Jamaican cinema's greatest ever export. Reggae star Jimmy Crag plays Ivan Martin, a country boy who heads for the capital, Kingston, in search of fame and fortune as a balladeer. Easier said than done, so he has to take operate with a nearby clergyman, and later ends up in prison. When, on salvation, he finally gets to list 'The Harder They Come', his fee is unprejudiced $20. As he slides into offence and the drug tra...
The Harder They Come
Jamaica's first inborn feature became something of a cult hit and made a huge star of Jimmy Cliff, whose own experiences, to a point, inform the plot of this wrong drama. After a hard-hitting opening, notwithstanding how — in which keenly observed documentary detail captures both the exotic and filthy sides of Kingston — this reggae reworking of the Ogygian rags-to-riches contention disappointingly descends into banal blaxploitation. The effort to make it in the music function is convincingly depicted, but director Perry Henzell loses his way when Scar resorts to cop arduous to boost his record sales. Whatever the film's shortcomings, though, the music is superb.
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