Film Club 01 - The Harder They Come (1972) - a podcast by JJ Loy and Matt Wixson

Hornpod Film Club 01 The Harder They Come (1972)

It’s the story of a Jamaican country boy who comes to the big city with dreams of becoming a Reggae star but ends up exploited by the music industry, cheated by the drug trade and eventually gunned down by the police.

It’s Jamaica’s first feature film, a cult classic and is widely credited with introducing Reggae to the world.

It’s The Harder They Come from 1972 and it is our first movie in The Hornpod Film Club!

Heather Augustyn is our special guest, she is the author of Ska: An Oral History and many other books about Jamaican history. 

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