The Harder They Come

For other uses, see The Harder They Come (disambiguation).

The Harder They Come
Original release poster
Directed byPerry Henzell
Written by
Produced by
StarringJimmy Cliff
Cinematography
  • Peter Jessop
  • David McDonald
  • Franklyn St. Juste
Edited by
  • Reicland Anderson
  • John Victor-Smith
  • Richard White
Music by
Production
company
  • International Films Inc.
Distributed byNew World Pictures
Release dates
Running time
109 minutes[2]
CountryJamaica
Languages
BudgetJ$400,000[3][better source needed] or $150,000[4]

The Harder They Come is a 1972 Jamaican crime film directed by Perry Henzell and co-written by Trevor D. Rhone, and starring Jimmy Cliff.[5][6] The film is most famous for its reggae soundtrack that is said to have "brought reggae to the world".[7]

Enormously successful in Jamaica, the film also reached the international market and has been described as "possibly the most influential of Jamaican films and one of the most important films from the Caribbean".[8]

  1. ^ Bakari 2018, p. 189.
  2. ^ "The Harder They Come (X)". British Board of Film Classification. 4 April 1977. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  3. ^ Campbell, Howard (18 April 2006). "ICON: Still harder than the rest". Jamaica Gleaner. p. A5 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-8357-1776-2.
  5. ^ Kenner, Rob (2009) "Trevor Rhone, a Writer of ‘The Harder They Come,’ Dies at 69", The New York Times, 21 September 2009, retrieved 11 November 2012
  6. ^ Katz, David (4 December 2006). "Obituary: Perry Henzell". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference per was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Mennel, Barbara, Cities and Cinema, Routledge, 2008, p.170.