Hard Times

James Coburn and Charles Bronson are a solid team. Probably one of Bronson's best movies.

Classic movie great performances all round. Bronson is superb

Smashing combo of Coburn and Bronson, showing modern actors how it should be done. Love the story, sets and mood. Everything good here……….

This movie managed to engage and engross me despite being based on a subject in which I have no interest. Even though it was filmed in an era where corny, one dimensional characters were due jour (think the original Battle Star Galactica), this movie was replete with gritty, complex and morally ambiguous characters. I found myself aligned with and supporting characters afflicted with addiction and whose behaviour at times would not be out of place in the mob.

Charles Bronson plays a quiet drifter who gets involved in the bare knuckle fight game when he meets a fast talking promoter with problems of his own played by James Coburn. I quite enjoyed this one. Follows a familiar formula for the most part, but the characters and acting is done well. Directed by Walter Hill.

My favorite movie of all-time and I have seen them all! Can watch over and over again!

The most amazing Acting by Bronson especially fight scenes and quite moments with Ireland. Coburn steals the show as Speed

BANG...!! WHACK !! This my kind of show ! If Charlie Bronson hits you, you stay hit !!

a very young Charles Bronson and James Coburn are truly living in 'hard times' another story set in the 1930's during the Great Depression; people are out of work, there's low finances and it looks like the only way to make some money is through underground bare-knuckle fighting Bronson is Chaney who arrives in Louisiana and Coburn is Speed, an avid gambler/con man who makes money quickly as fast as he loses it The fights seem to be going their way but Speed borrows money from the wrong people and now he has to bet against his most-prized fighter to square off his debts To Chaney the money isn't important it's more about the winning. Seeing somebody go down is enough to put a smile on his face. But could he have his last fight for good? Ok so there isn't a humongous resolution waiting towards the end ,still, theres an air full of hopefulness in line with the American spirit Bronson is awesome, James Coburn is classy and the fight scenes are very well filmed. Good pacing too for only an hour and a half. A simple premise not too large but pitch perfect actors make the movie a ‘good time' in these harsh times. Very evocative and atmospheric in its setting.

Bronson's best film.