The Harder They Come

Ivanhoe "Ivan" Martin is a poor Jamaican man in search of a job. He leaves his rural home after his grandmother dies to live with his impoverished mother in Kingston, Jamaica. He meets Jose, who takes him to see ''Django (1966 film)'', a Spaghetti Western. Excited by urban life, he tries to get work but fails. He finally gets a job with a preacher, he also takes a broken bicycle frame and rebuit it into a working bicycle, and uses it to run errands for a record producer. He gets into trouble with the preacher after he used his church for secular songs. After being fired by preacher he returned to the house to collect his bicycle, that preacher had now officially given to Ivan's colleague, the two fight after he refuses to give Ivan the cycle; Ivan slashes him with a knife, a crime for which he is sentenced to a whipping.

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 23666
  • Status Released
  • Released Worldwide September 1, 1972
  • Runtime 103 minutes
  • Genres Drama Crime
  • Original Country Jamaica
  • Original Language English
  • Spoken Languages English
  • Production Company International Films Xenon Pictures
  • Production Countries Jamaica
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