Hard Times (1975)

Cast

James Coburn
as Speed
Charles Bronson
as Chaney
Bruce Glover
as Doty
Jill Ireland
as Lucy Simpson

Get more information about Hard Times (1975) on IMDb

Genres & Description

Action Crime Drama Sport

7.3 / 10

During the Great Depression, the mysterious drifter Chaney befriends the promoter of illegal street fights Speed and they go to New Orleans to make money fighting on the streets. Speed is welcomed by his mistress Gayleen Schoonoverand invites his former partner Poe to team-up with them. Meanwhile Chaney has a love affair with the local Lucy Simpson. Speed has a huge debt with the dangerous loan shark Doty and borrows money to promote the fight of Chaney and the local champion Jim Henry, who is managed by the also promoter. Casey wins the fight, they make a lot of money but Speed is an addicted gambler and loses his share in the dice table. But Doty wants his money back and Speed's only chance is Chaney accepts to bet his own money that he is saving and fight a winner that Gandil brought from Chicago. Will he accept the challenge?

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Comments on this trailer
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711scotttrain

Great shots of "old" New Orleans. - @Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:28 AM

Mark Cannon

A really really good film so so sad but your so happy he wins at the end but walks away into the future on his own - @Wednesday, June 27, 2018 9:04 PM

Harris Roit

Total Hard-Ass Award 🏆 Personal favorite, edging out Mr Majestyk & the Mechanic by a fist 😑👊👊💫💤 - @Monday, June 18, 2018 7:01 AM

Andrew Hall

Fuckin tremendous, Joe Rogan - @Tuesday, June 12, 2018 4:24 AM

Dayon Mage

this looks like a great movie; a healthy dose of cinematic perfection for my quenched thirst in these desolate times of plummeting movie trends. What I wouldn't give to live in 1975. - @Monday, June 11, 2018 3:29 AM

Christopher James

If any 1 has an issue with that. We can strip to the waist and get in the cage in it ? I. Mean being the best actor of the century - @Thursday, May 3, 2018 8:14 AM

Christopher James

People should be forced to watch at gunpoint if nessessary - @Thursday, May 3, 2018 8:12 AM

Christopher James

The best. Actor of the century. Not 1 of. But the best. Along with maqueen and Pacino. - @Thursday, May 3, 2018 8:11 AM

Daniel Saenz

Thumbs up for Street Fighter II - @Monday, March 19, 2018 5:21 PM

Purefoldnz

I'm going down to Emmett's fix it shop to fix Emmett. - @Monday, March 19, 2018 9:37 AM

Billy Cahill

they dont make them like that anymore - @Sunday, July 16, 2017 11:16 PM

Raymond Blanchard

a movie unlike anything you will see today.just classic in every sense.you can keep your star wars. - @Sunday, April 16, 2017 5:26 PM

Yair

joe rogan podcast brought me here. and this movie loooks great. def must watch - @Sunday, April 9, 2017 3:58 AM

mynine goesbang

great year 😎 - @Saturday, April 8, 2017 10:39 PM

Dylan Bousfield

Good film - @Friday, August 26, 2016 12:30 PM

Peter Slack

its on sky now,Sony Movies(323)great film,beyond my time but a really good film ;) - @Saturday, January 2, 2016 8:00 PM

lkeaboy

Just watched. A *CLASSIC!* - @Tuesday, September 22, 2015 6:10 PM

jcheeseman21

1933 did not have the train engines in this movie or the buildings, other than that it was a great movie. - @Monday, September 14, 2015 12:06 AM

wastedyom

DIAZ!!! - @Saturday, March 28, 2015 7:29 PM

TheHashomer

MrCaveman366: The song title is "Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens." - @Wednesday, March 25, 2015 7:15 AM

JP Toutant

as seen on the joe rogan programmm ! - @Sunday, March 22, 2015 5:24 AM

MrCaveman366

What is the name of the song that begins at 0:19? - @Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:27 AM

sheehan1able

sequal with russell crowe as chaney, leonardo dicaprio as speed, jack black as poe, jude law as chick, ving rhames as jim henry, aaron eckert as the last fighter from chicago, scarlett johannsson as lucy and selma blair as gayleen. the sequel should be set in the depression era too. - @Tuesday, August 5, 2014 7:47 PM

sheehan1able

lets go get the CAT! - @Tuesday, August 5, 2014 7:39 PM

gjc82071

Hard Times is one of Bronson's finest performances & the movie itself, is arguably the best of it's kind, ever made. I think the movie has definite remake potential & it's even possible to produce a good remake, but it would never compare to the original. - @Tuesday, May 6, 2014 11:23 PM

mark gonzales

wounder if brownson is drinking star bucks at 1:06 are dunks ? - @Friday, December 27, 2013 6:11 PM

staffheart1

"Let's go and get the cat." "Yeah." - @Friday, September 20, 2013 8:20 AM

MikeDiFool

Know what this movie is called in Japan? 'The Streetfighter'. That's... just bad-ass. - @Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:13 AM

greedybliss

:/ looks boring - @Saturday, September 7, 2013 3:50 PM

Prasanth Kumar

YIFY brought me here! - @Saturday, September 7, 2013 10:02 AM

dimplex

powerful Charles Bronson - @Saturday, August 31, 2013 8:09 AM

wiley coldiron

queer as a 4 dollar bill - @Sunday, August 11, 2013 8:49 AM

Alan Brown

Today's male: Pussified liberal Mommy's boys who have never known hardship and most likely on some kind of gov assistance. Thank you democrats - @Saturday, June 22, 2013 11:35 PM

Tudor Renegade

1:02 I never understood what makes men so tough if they are loners and refuse beautiful women. Does he like only jerking off or is he gay ? - @Monday, June 3, 2013 4:21 AM

Corey K

I agree 100%. The so- called "guy films" (as well as movies in general) have been largely puss-ified over the last couple of decades. It's a damn shame! - @Monday, May 20, 2013 4:13 AM

john smith

Jack Dempsey - @Friday, May 17, 2013 11:41 PM

Tungstenum666

In those days men like Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood or Chuck Connors set the standard for what a man's film should be... even the names were intimidating! Today's Hollywood is full of shitty CGI, metrosexual twats, pretty boys and pathetic clowns. Today's masculinity is defined by tv shows like "Jersey Shore" and movies like "Twilight" - @Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:35 AM

modelcitizen72

Love Skinhead's line partway through the fight, still smiling, "You're pretty good!" - @Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:05 AM

The best Bronson movie ever! - @Sunday, March 3, 2013 10:23 AM

Mr.Clem

Just an FYI... Jill Ireland was married to Bronson. She was 15 years his junior, but he outlived her by 13, after she died of cancer in 1990. - @Thursday, November 29, 2012 11:29 AM

Mr.Clem

Bronson is 54-years old in this film. Wow. - @Thursday, November 29, 2012 11:26 AM

EdWatts

Twenty rounds from an 1873 Colt SAA is baloney, but your assertion that cowboys didn't "tote" guns is wrong. Almost all of the folks who settled "the west" carried firearms; some of my ancestors were among them, and they left journals, letters, and so on describing the times. You have been brainwashed by anti-gun liberals, probably in America's school system. On the other hand, your name does tell us that you're a huckster. - @Monday, September 10, 2012 12:08 AM

EdWatts

The "friend" was David McCallum. - @Monday, September 10, 2012 12:03 AM

MMAfighter1555

Doubt it. - @Sunday, June 10, 2012 2:28 AM

huckstered

Yea right. Actors do steriods too, especially 52 year olds. Perhaps he had enough natural aptitude and talent for such a physique. It is no big deal if he did. - @Tuesday, May 22, 2012 7:14 AM

GeorgiaBoy1961

Some guys are lucky-enough to make enough testostoerone on their own that they don't need the help. Maybe Bronson fell into that category, you never know. - @Tuesday, May 22, 2012 4:14 AM

BEARS121

I think you hit the nail on the head. - @Monday, May 21, 2012 4:27 PM

huckstered

A guy could just do one or two rounds of steroids to bulk up a little bit and not have the look of an abuser. I doubt it also but Bronson was pretty bulked up. - @Monday, May 21, 2012 1:33 PM

GeorgiaBoy1961

(continued) You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but I don't like running down the memory of a dead man, so I'm not gonna pursue this discuss further. He isn't here to defend himself; he did what he did or not, and we're certainly not going to change anything now. - @Monday, May 21, 2012 7:14 AM

GeorgiaBoy1961

Steve Reeves and Charles Bronson looked nothing alike. Bronson to me doesn't have the look common to so many guys who use steroids. I am a biochemist and know the clinical presentation and physiology behind steroid use/abuse pretty well - and I have seen plenty of people on them. It's usually pretty obvious. Bronson doesn't fit the profile, IMO. I'm speculating of course, but then so are you by asserting that he may have used them. We'll probably never know. - @Monday, May 21, 2012 7:12 AM