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  Cult Jamaican classic starring reggae star Jimmy Cliff as Ivanhoe Martin a country boy who comes to Kingston to make it big in the music industry. Hampered by payola and music industry corruption Ivanhoe turns to ganjadealing to try and make ends meet. Events spiral out of his control and he soon fi nds himself on the run from the police. The celebrated soundtrack is peppered with reggae classics by the likes of Toots and the Maytals Desmond Dekker The Melodians and Cliff himself who performs among others the title track and the timeless ‘Many Rivers to Cross’.

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  Cult Jamaican classic starring reggae star Jimmy Cliff as Ivanhoe Martin a country boy who comes to Kingston to make it big in the music industry. Hampered by payola and music industry corruption Ivanhoe turns to ganjadealing to try and make ends meet. Events spiral out of his control and he soon fi nds himself on the run from the police. The celebrated soundtrack is peppered with reggae classics by the likes of Toots and the Maytals Desmond Dekker The Melodians and Cliff himself who performs among others the title track and the timeless ‘Many Rivers to Cross’.

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  A poor Jamaican tries to make it big in the music industry. Featuring an outstanding reggae soundtrack, it caused unprecedented scenes on its first night in Kingston, when 40,000 people turned out for the premiere. It is now an acknowledged cult classic and Yardie movie.

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  Director-producer Perry Henzel's all-Jamaican 1973 classic The Harder They Come--one of the most beloved of all international cult favourites--fiercely expresses the live-wire Jamaican spirit when an impoverished Africa tuned to American radio. Ivan, a country boy who dreams of fame as a singer, rides into Kingston on a rickety country bus in the opening scenes, only to meet with disaster heaped on disaster at the hands of those masked as friends. In a breathless defining climax, Ivan finally breaks from his passivity and begins to wreak his revenge. Soon Kingston's music Mafia and the equally corrupt authorities are after him, but like the real-life people's hero (a man named Rhygin) on whom this character is partially based, Ivan leads them on a maddening chase eluding capture until the movie's shocking final moments. ,p. The film incorporates an archetypal passion for "outlaw" justice common to American Westerns, which were a staple of the Caribbean theatre circuit at the time. Released just 12 years after Jamaica achieved independence, The Harder They Come also reflects the disenchantment that soon followed a massive post-independence exodus from the island's country hamlets to the tropical ghettos of Kingston, where a more grinding urban poverty awaited. Brilliantly shot, directed, written, and acted; singer Jimmy Cliff excels in the leading role and Carl Bradshaw shines as his arch-enemy, the film tells an anthemic Jamaican story to seductive rhythms of a soundtrack that became a reggae bestseller.--Elena Oumano

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  Ivanhoe Martin comes to the city to make it big singing Reggae. However he finds life in the city to be harder than he though and is taken advantage of by both the record producer and the marijuana boss he later starts dealing for. When he kills a police officer events start escalating that make him the Jamaica's most wanted man and a momentary hero to all the oppressed Jamaicans. This is based on a true story.