The Harder They Come 1972 Watch Free in HD

Jimmy Cliff

1 April 1948, St. Catherine, Jamaica

24 May 1938, Kingston, Jamaica

23 November 1941, San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Perry Henzell

7 March 1936, Port Maria, St. Mary, Jamaica

Trevor D. Rhone

24 March 1940, Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies

Perry Henzell

7 March 1936, Port Maria, St. Mary, Jamaica

Ivanhoe

Played by: Jimmy Cliff

Time Out

Atrocious acting, amateurish camerawork and a hackneyed story line all make for one painful slog.

June 05, 2012

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Predated Bob Marley's success by a year.

August 26, 2015

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Radio Times

Whatever the film's shortcomings, though, the music is superb.

October 02, 2015

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Chicago Reader

With this 1972 cult hit, Jamaican filmmaker Perry Henzell produced a proud, forthright indictment of national and personal corruption.

October 02, 2015

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The Spectator

A film so assured and professional that it makes one suspect the presence of a thriving industry that has for years gone unacknowledged in Europe.

September 30, 2015

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Time Out

The action is as gutsy as the well-integrated score, which makes the movie's Hollywood-style gloss a little anomalous, but the basic humour and toughness emerge unscathed.

February 09, 2006

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TV Guide

A gritty, realistic view of urban Jamaica that reveals the squalor of shantytowns tourists never see.

September 30, 2015

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Village Voice

The definitive postcolonial cult-movie musical.

June 05, 2012

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Variety

Perry Henzell emerges a director with a solid visual flair who can mix action and inchoate rage sans excess to give the film a taut pacing and use the local color and a basically predictable tale with a few new twists.

May 27, 2009

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ColeSmithey.com

Perry Henzell's 1972 rugged reggae crime story--loosely based on a '40s-era Jamaican folk hero/criminal--plays like a musically-inspired docudrama of the raw social reality of the impoverished island nation in the '70s.

April 07, 2010

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Film4

Rough 'n' ready but also rather wonderful.

October 02, 2015

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TIME Magazine

The Harder They Come is always exuberant, and sometimes strong, as casually surprising and effortlessly sinister as the blade sliding out of a gravity knife.

October 02, 2015

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