CHARLES BRONSON HARD TIMES SERIES
HARD TIMES, Walter Hill’s two-fisted action drama featuring Charles Bronson at his explosive best, is released as part of the Masters of Cinema Series in a definitive Dual-format (Blu-ray & DVD) edition on 24 April 2017 and is available to purchase here Gritty, vivid and engrossing, the Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present this 1970s gem, available on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, and presented from a new 4K restoration, in a new Dual-Format edition. Chaney approaches a hustler named Speed (James Coburn) and convinces him that he can win big money for them both. Chaney, a down-on-his-luck loner, hops a freight train to New Orleans where, on the seedier side of town, he tries to make some quick money the only way he knows how – with his fists. The American action auteur Walter Hill made a magnificent debut with this pulp triumph, featuring evocative period atmosphere and sterling performances from Charles Bronson and James Coburn.īronson plays a drifter suddenly caught up in the fight game during the Great Depression.
CHARLES BRONSON HARD TIMES MOVIE
This is the most powerful and honest movie ever made about hard times.Charles Bronson plays the part of a drifter, a loner, and a man who speaks soft and hits hard, in Walter Hill’s HARD TIMESĮureka Entertainment to release HARD TIMES, Walter Hill’s two-fisted action drama featuring Charles Bronson at his explosive best, as part of the Masters of Cinema Series in a Dual Format edition on 24 April 2017. Strother Martin as Poe, the dope addict cut man who adds his own humor, sadness and resignation to a movie utterly packed to the brim with memorable characters. Either one of them could wipe the floor with "Bonnie" from Bonnie and Clyde.
Maggie Blye and Jill Ireland, both sexy and authentic as Depression women - Jill too sickened by failure to ever love again, Maggie too aware of how short life is to ever let a minute go by without a laugh.
James Coburn as the manager Speed, so dishonest yet completely likable and in his own way a real hero. Bronson is enough - but there's so much more. It's the perfect vehicle for the perfect star. The ugly violence and the hopelessness in this film are so real that they actually build up the character even more than Bronson's natural authority and physical presence. Here's Ryan O'Neil, tough as nails and a real fighter, but hey, it's okay - he's got a cute little girl along for the ride! One close up of Charles Bronson's face takes you to a place no other Depression picture dares to go. Here's Robert Redford, the ultimate preppy blonde pretty boy, delicately hobnobbing with down-to-earth "Negroes" and glowing with his own virtue. And here's Faye Dunaway, the dead-end girl, wearing scrumptious couture while she robs banks. Here's giggly Warren Beatty pretending he knows what it's like to be poor. All three movies "strain" for a sense of desperate characters in a dog-eat-dog world, but every one of them cops out with Hollywood glitz and glamor. BONNIE AND CLYDE, THE STING, and PAPER MOON were all massive box office hits, set in the Depression. To understand why HARD TIMES is a masterpiece, compare it to other films from around this time. Just a hard man doing what he has to in order to survive. No love story, no cute little kids, no happy ending, no redemption.
A desperate hobo boxes to make some extra money in the Depression.