Film
The Harder They Come
- Director
- Perry Henzell
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 103 mins
Return of the 1972 Jamaican classic with country boy Jimmy Cliff getting mixed up in the ganja trade while trying to become a reggae star in Kingston. Soon he’s on the run after killing a corrupt cop. Renowned as much for its soundtrack as its cinematic qualities, the first – and, arguably, best – feature to come out of Jamaica offers a vivid depiction of shanty-town life, its somewhat hackneyed storyline being based on a folk tale from the ’50s.
It’s bakc on screen in the Watershed’s Era-Defining Soundtracks season, which is in turn part of Filmic 20.
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