Welcome to Hard Times

Welcome to Hard Times

1967 · 103 min · IT · 5.2 (18 votes)
Dir. Burt Kennedy · Starring Henry Fonda, Janice Rule, Keenan Wynn, Janis Paige, John Anderson, Warren Oates · Music Harry Sukman

A town can be killed by a bullet...just like a man!

Western

A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.

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This stark western feels like a dusty, sun-baked dirge. It's a grim, unflinching look at a town's slow collapse and the desperate, quiet resilience of its survivors. A somber, character-focused experience.

bleakgrittysomberresilientslow-burnrevisionist westerncharacter-drivenstark realismsurvivalcommunitydespairrebuilding
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