Welcome to Hard Times (1967)

Directed by

Burt Kennedy

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A dying town's leader struggles to protect its few residents from a violent brute who terrorizes them. The townspeople are too weak to stand up for themselves.

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What happens

Welcome to Hard Times is a 1967 American Western film written and directed by Burt Kennedy and starring Henry Fonda as the leader of a dying town that is too weak to stand up to a brute terrorizing the few remaining residents. It is based upon the 1960 novel by E. L. Doctorow. According to Kennedy "It has something of a cult following—it's a dark, dreary kind of a thing." He added Doctrow "came out in the press saying that it was the second-worst picture he'd ever seen. I was afraid to ask him what the first one was. I was afraid it was one of mine." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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