Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Jamaica
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, "The Harder They Come," but after a bitter dispute with a manipulative producer named Hilton, soon finds himself resorting to petty crime in order to pay the bills. He deals marijuana, kills some abusive cops and earns local folk hero status. Meanwhile, his record is topping the charts.
- cinema on cinema
- gangster
- disc jockey
- jamaica
- church choir
- reggae
- parish
- recording contract
- record producer
- record label
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Basil Keane — Preacher
- Bob Charlton — Hilton
- Winston Stona — Detective Ray Jones
- Lucia White — Mother
- Volair Johnson — Pushcart Boy
- Beverly Anderson — Housewife
- Clover Lewis — Market Woman
- Elijah Chambers — Longa
- Prince Buster — DJ at Dance
- Ed 'Bim' Lewis — Photographer
- Bobby Loban — Fitz
- Directed
- Perry Henzell
- Written
- Perry Henzell, Trevor D. Rhone
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 127 ratings
- Studio
- International Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
