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The Hard Man

  • 19571957
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 20m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
432
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Valerie French and Guy Madison in The Hard Man (1957)
Western
A lawman becomes a Deputy in a town where he suspects the friend he had to kill in self defense, was framed for murder.A lawman becomes a Deputy in a town where he suspects the friend he had to kill in self defense, was framed for murder.A lawman becomes a Deputy in a town where he suspects the friend he had to kill in self defense, was framed for murder.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
432
YOUR RATING
    • George Sherman
    • Leo Katcher(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Guy Madison
    • Valerie French
    • Lorne Greene
    • George Sherman
    • Leo Katcher(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Guy Madison
    • Valerie French
    • Lorne Greene
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    • 11User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    The Hard Man (1957)
    The Hard Man (1957)
    The Hard Man (1957)
    Valerie French and Guy Madison in The Hard Man (1957)
    Lorne Greene, Valerie French, and Guy Madison in The Hard Man (1957)
    Lorne Greene, Valerie French, and Guy Madison in The Hard Man (1957)
    Valerie French and Guy Madison in The Hard Man (1957)
    Valerie French and Guy Madison in The Hard Man (1957)

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    Guy Madison
    Guy Madison
    • Steve Burden
    Valerie French
    Valerie French
    • Fern Martin
    Lorne Greene
    Lorne Greene
    • Rice Martin
    Barry Atwater
    Barry Atwater
    • George Dennison
    Robert Burton
    Robert Burton
    • Sheriff Hacker
    Rudy Bond
    Rudy Bond
    • John Rodman
    Trevor Bardette
    Trevor Bardette
    • Mitch Willis
    Renata Vanni
    Renata Vanni
    • Juanita
    Leah Baird
    Leah Baird
    • Townswoman
    • (uncredited)
    Doyle Brooks
    • Card player
    • (uncredited)
    John Cason
    John Cason
    • Henchman with Eye Patch
    • (uncredited)
    Bill Clark
    Bill Clark
    • Barfly
    • (uncredited)
    Francis De Sales
    Francis De Sales
    • Captain Peters
    • (uncredited)
    Richard Farnsworth
    Richard Farnsworth
    • Posse Man
    • (uncredited)
    Helen Gereghty
    • Townswoman
    • (uncredited)
    Augie Gomez
    • Townsman
    • (uncredited)
    Frank Hagney
    Frank Hagney
    • Posse Man
    • (uncredited)
    Bill Hale
    • Ranger
    • (uncredited)
      • George Sherman
      • Leo Katcher(screenplay) (novel)
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    • Trivia
      Columbia Pictures released this film on a double feature with The Long Haul (1957) with the tag line: "The Long Haul will DELIGHT You! The Hard Man Will EXCITE You!"
    • Goofs
      The walls of Dennison's office building appear to be made of panels painted to look like bricks rather than being of a solid brick construction, as observed when Willis tries to kill Burden and Kane.
    • Connections
      Referenced in The Exiles (1961)

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    5/10
    Very turgid story. Avoid the movie, unless you are a Guy Madison fan.
    This is a very poor western; I found it difficult to watch. For the first 80% or so, it has a ridiculous, pompous, almost juvenile, turgid screenplay. A second strike against it is that it is bad despite its decent production values and cast. One interesting aspect is that it is unlike most poor movies which often start out as an intriguing, entertaining situation, but are eventually found out for what they are when it's silly plot plays out for all to see. But this movie reverses that -- things actually improve in the end.

    Typical of the many embarrassing plot contrivances is when Valerie French, the wife of the overwhelmingly richest man in town, sneaks into Guy Madison's room. She walks up to him (a complete stranger to her); they embrace and she offers to hook up with him if he'll take her from her husband! In another silly scene, Lorne Greene (the husband) is in a Guy Madison-friendly place at night, and he tells Madison that he has hired someone to kill Madison. By all rights Madison could safely and should have killed Greene right there, but no.

    Some decent scenes at and near the end of the movie do NOT redeem it: (1) there was a fun, campy whose-afraid-of-Virginia-Wolf-type scene between Greene, French and Greene's lawyer (who is involved with French). They let it all hang out. Greene leaves a gun near the other two; French grabs it, points it at Greene and clicks the trigger, but Greene deliberately left it there unloaded. Still Greene won't let his wife leave him! And (2) there is a suspenseful shoot-out at the end, which leads to a twist in the story.
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    • Dec 14, 2011

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      • December 1957 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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      • Romson Productions
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    • 1 hour 20 minutes

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