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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:

Walter Hill

Writers:

Walter Hill (screenplay) and
Bryan Gindoff (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

4 September 1975 (Netherlands) more

Genre:

Action | Drama more

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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User Comments:

A truly great movie. more (66 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Charles Bronson ... Chaney

James Coburn ... Spencer 'Speed' Weed

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

Margaret Blye ... Gayleen Schoonover
Michael McGuire ... Chick Gandil
Felice Orlandi ... Le Beau
Edward Walsh ... Pettibon

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

Nick Dimitri ... Street
Frank McRae ... Hammerman
Maurice Kowaleski ... Caesare

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

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:PG | UK:AA (original rating) | West Germany:16 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 (video rating) | Norway:16 (original rating) | Singapore:NC-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Chick Gandil, the gambler in the film, was also the name of one of the Black Sox players who conspired with gambler Arnold Rothstein to fix the 1919 World Series. more

Goofs:

Anachronisms: The herald information for the railroads painted on the boxcars after the last big fight scene are 1960's vintage rather than the era the movie suggests. more

Quotes:

Lucy Simpson: What does it feel like to knock somebody down?
Chaney: It makes me feel a hell of a lot better than it does him.
Lucy Simpson: That's a reason?
Chaney: Hey, there's no reason about it. Just money.
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Movie Connections:

Referenced in Fight Club (1999) more


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30 out of 43 people found the following comment useful.
A truly great movie., 18 March 2005
10/10
Author: dbush67565 from United States

This is one of my favorite films. There is a quality about it that touches the soul. Charles Bronson, James Coburn and Strother Martin are superb. Coburn is the character. The story is great, the acting is great and the music is great, particularly the closing piece of blue grass. I saw Hard Times when it first came out and it never left me. I'm not even sure why. Perhaps because all the characters, even the antagonists are depicted as real humans and not caricatures. For example, the loan sharks mean business but aren't bloodthirsty. They want their money and do what they have to to collect. Interestingly they seem genuinely pleased with the resolution of their problem. Even the film's "heavy" has the decency to pay due homage to the skill of his nemesis. And once business is concluded personal relationships are renewed. In my mind this is a true classic.

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