The Harder They Come (1972)

Actors

• Prince Buster (actor)
• Elijah Chambers (actor)
• Bob Charlton (actor)
• Jimmy Cliff (actor)
• Ras Daniel Hartman (actor)
• Toots Hibbert (actor)
• Volair Johnson (actor)
• Basil Keane (actor)
• Karl Leslie (actor)
• Ed 'Bim' Lewis (actor)
• Bobby Loban (actor)
• Adrian Robinson (actor)
• Winston Stona (actor)
• Don Topping (actor)
• Carl Bradshaw (actor)

Genres

• Crime
• Drama
• Music

Taglines:

dem a loot, dem a shoot, dem a wail in shanty town (British DVD tag-line)
The film that took reggae music to the world!
With a Piece in His Hand He Takes on the Man!
He Makes Women and the Charts and is on top with both.

Quotes:

Ivan Martin: [title song] and the oppressors are trying to keep me down /T rying to drive me underground / And they think that they have got the battle won / I say, "Forgive them, Lord, they know not what they've done," / For as sure as the Sun will shine / I'm going to get my share now, what's mine and the harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all.

[Ivan is fighting his boss over a bike]::Ivan Martin: You want dead? I will kill you, clot! [he punctuates these words with knife-blows to his boss's face:] Don't! Fuck! With! Me!

DJ: You know, this is show *business*, Baby. No business, no show!

DJ at Dance: Sit tight and listen keenly while I play for you another brand-new musical biscuit from the Hilton's empire. This a brand-new song they call "The Harder They Fall" by the man called Ivan!

Mother: Why you no bring mango from country?::Ivan Martin: Mango season bad this year.

Man In Cinema: The hero can't dead till the last reel!