Hard Times is a 1975movie starring Charles Bronson as Chaney, a street fighter who travels to Louisiana during the Great Depression to make his living in illegal boxing matches. He is hired by an agent (played by James Coburn) who enters him into matches against the top fighters in the state with the hopes of winning. The agent turns out to have problems of his own with indebtedness to organized crime, forcing Chaney to enter one last fight to get his agent out of trouble. 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... Charles Bronson For the Welsh prisoner, see Charles Bronson (prisoner). ... State nickname: Pelican State Other U.S. States Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans Governor Kathleen Blanco Official languages None; English and French de facto Area 134,382 km² (31st) - Land 112,927 km² - Water 21,455 km² (16%) Population (2000) - Population 4,468,976 (22nd) - Density 39. ... The Great Depression was a massive global economic recession (or depression) that ran from 1929 to 1941. ... // Boxing Wiki For further information refer to the mediawiki based Boxing Wiki 2004 Armed Forces Amateur Boxing Championships, held in 2003. ... James Coburn (August 31, 1928 - November 18, 2002) was an American movie actor. ... Organized crime is crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations. ...
HardTimes is a 1975movie starring Charles Bronson as Chaney, a street fighter who travels to Louisiana during the Great Depression to make his living in illegal boxing matches.
The titular “hardtimes” refer to the film’s setting; the United States (mostly New Orleans, Louisiana) during the Great Depression among the underground street fighting community.
The film is about the personalities of local street fighters and their agents; a group that has always been on the outskirts of society.
In the film, the character is more sympathetic, as is demonstrated in a long scene between Hammond (Richard Attenborough) and Ellie Satler (Laura Dern), in which he describes his wonder at a flea circus, and his vision to re-create this wonder with dinosaurs.
In the film, Helen Hanff and Frank Doel are portrayed brilliantly by Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins.
He found it to be written much like a film, and his approach was to stay close to the characterisation, and create a structure based upon set pieces, which meant that whole section of the novel's action could be lost, without changing the story.