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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767824552
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767824555
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 06, 1999
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 14075
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1975
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The tale of a fighter a sharpster and their illegal bare-knuckle bouts. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/22/2005 Starring: Charles Bronson James Coburn Run time: 94 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Walter Hill
Amazon.com:
Walter Hill's colorful directorial debut has quite a cult following for its toughness and violence; it may well be his best film, in fact. Charles Bronson plays a silent street fighter in New Orleans in the '30s managed by the cool James Coburn. Jill Ireland, Strother Martin, and Michael McGuire costar in this spare existential Depression dirge. It owes a lot to its noir origins that Hill adores so much, yet there's something very fresh and vital about its subject and approach. That's really what made so many of these films from the '70s so endearing. An added bonus is the love and affection displayed by the real-life husband and wife team of Bronson and Ireland. --Bill Desowitz
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Superb
This movie is a favorite.
I have the WS/FS version. The transfer is not very good; the soundtrack is mono, and does not do justice to the film. Technical issues aside, the movie is flawless. It has no special features.
If you're going to like this movie, you'll know it from the opening sequence: silence up to a diesel's rumble & whistle on the way into New Orleans; imagery to match.
Every element--acting, directing, writing, music, cinematography--is pitch ... Read More
Rating:  - Hard Times aka "The Streetfighter"
Overall, a reasonably high quality, no frills, DVD. My main criticism is that the full screen format left out a lot of detail at the periphery, for instance in the scene when Chaney (Bronson) challenges Pettibon's Cajun fighter. In the dispute after the fight all we hear is the click of a gun, we are left to assume from the there is an armed man because he is totally invisible. Likewise when Chaney shoots up Pettibon's honkytonk, some of the time he is aiming at invisible targets like the old fashioned ... Read More
Rating:  - A Real Gem
Early Walter Hill film about street fighting in the 1920's with granite faced Charles Bronson as Chaney, James Coburn as huckster promoter Speed and Strother Martin as Poe, as a dope addict corner man. The best fight is a terrific battle in a cage between Bronson and movie bad guy Robert Tessier! Ol' Chuck tatooes his pointy-bald head with his fists. It is actually better than the final confronation between Chaney and a top fighter brought in by a gangster. Fun fair.
Rating: - "Hard Times" - A Bronson must see
Rock'em sock'em action. "Death Wish" with bare knuckles. A must see for Bronson fans. Excellent supporting cast (James Coburn, Strother Martin).
Rating: - Bronson Hard as the times
This is a great movie.
Bronson is left with fairly minimal dialogue to worry about,
but that is not what his opponnents should be worrying about.
He is definitely lean and mean but desperate times call for these measires(sorry for the cliche) he fights for survival and the bare essentials he and his family need to live.
The depression era is portrayed in the way that it should be,hard,filthy and above all with a thick layer of mistrust coming from all of the actors,Coburn is great ... Read More
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