It stars Charles Bronson as Chaney, a mysterious drifter freighthopping through Louisiana during the Great Depression, who proves indomitable in illegal bare-knuckled boxing matches after forming a …

Hard Times: Directed by Walter Hill. With Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin. The saga of a drifter who turns to illicit bare-knuckle boxing in Depression-era New Orleans.

Bronson plays an itinerant bare-knuckle street fighter in the 1930s who makes his living beating the brains out of those foolish enough to think they can take the graying tough guy.

“Hard Times” is a powerful, brutal film containing a definitive Charles Bronson performance. He plays Chaney, a man of few words and no past, who rides the rails to New Orleans for the winter and tries …

During the Great Depression, Chaney (Charles Bronson) bare-knuckle boxes to survive. Speed (James Coburn), an avid gambler, recognizes his talent and becomes his manager. They hire a cut man...

A street fighter during the Great Depression meets with a slick promoter to make some quick money in New Orleans.

An aging, bare-knuckle street fighter in 1930's New Orleans makes his living in illegal brawls with opponents fooled into thinking they can take him.