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Hard Times is a american film of genre Drama directed by Walter Hill released in USA on 8 october 1975 with Charles Bronson
Hard Times (1975)
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Add to a movie listHard 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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Chaney (Charles Bronson), a mysterious, down-on-his luck drifter during the Great Depression, arrives in town in the boxcar of a freight train. He comes upon a bare-knuckled street fight run by gamblers. After the bout, he approaches one of the fight's organizers, the fast-talking "Speed" (James Coburn), and asks Speed to set up a fight. Betting his few dollars on himself, Chaney wins with a single punch.Actors
Charles Bronson
(Chaney)
James Coburn
(Spencer "Speed" Weed)
Jill Ireland
(Lucy Simpson)
Strother Martin
(Poe)
Bruce Glover
(Doty)
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