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Hard Times (1975) -- Chaney (Charles Bronson) bare knuckle boxes his way through New Orleans with Speed Weed (James Coburn) a fast talking promoter. It’s '30s grit with '70s bloody visceral poetry.
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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Walter Hill (screenplay) and
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Release Date:
4 September 1975 (Netherlands) more
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Tagline:
New Orleans, 1933. In those days words didn't say much. [DVD] more
Plot:
In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts... more | full synopsis
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Some of the best fight scenes more (68 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Charles Bronson ... Chaney

James Coburn ... Speed

Jill Ireland ... Lucy Simpson
Strother Martin ... Poe

Margaret Blye ... Gayleen Schoonover (as Maggie Blye)
Michael McGuire ... Gandil
Felice Orlandi ... Le Beau
Edward Walsh ... Pettibon

Bruce Glover ... Doty
Robert Tessier ... Jim Henry

Nick Dimitri ... Street
Frank McRae ... Hammerman
Maurice Kowaleski ... Caesare (as Maurice Kowalewski)

Naomi Stevens ... Madam
Lyla Hay Owen ... Waitress
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Street Fighter (Philippines: English title)
The Streetfighter (UK)
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Runtime:
93 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Charles Bronson's Chaney is a man of few words, speaking barely 500 of them in the entire course of the film. more
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Anachronisms: Not only are the heralds seen painted on the boxcars from the 1960's, the boxcars, themselves, are of a design type dating from the 1950's and later. more
Quotes:
Poe: Some are born to fail, others have it thrust upon them. more
Movie Connections:
Remade as Sucker Punch (2008) more

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23 out of 32 people found the following comment useful.
Some of the best fight scenes, 31 March 2005
Author: louis-king from Watertown, Massachusetts

Great role for Bronson.

Compare Bronson's fighting style with almost any other fight movie like Kirk Douglas in 'Champion' or Stallone in the 'Rocky' series. Bronson slips and ducks his opponent's punches like a real fighter does, putting as much effort into not getting hit as he does hitting the other guy. Any fighter taking the hits that most movie boxers take would be unconscious or dead in a matter of minutes, and even sluggers like Rocky Marciano and George Frazier were constantly moving, never offering a good target.

This depression era movie is similar in flavor to the Lee Marvin Ernest Borgnine vehicle 'Emperor of The North'. Both movies have unsentimental, tough, taciturn heroes who communicate more with glances and gestures.

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