Poster details
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- Title
- The Streetfighter
- AKA
- Hard Times (USA) | L'eroe della strada [The hero of the street] (Italy)
- Year of Film
- 1975
- Director
- Walter Hill
- Starring
- Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin, Margaret Blye, Michael McGuire, Felice Orlandi, Edward Walsh, Bruce Glover, Robert Tessier, Nick Dimitri
- Origin of Film
- USA
- Type of Poster
- B2
- Style of Poster
- --
- Origin of Poster
- Japan
- Year of Poster
- 1975
- Designer
- Unknown
- Artist
- --
- Size (inches)
- 20 6/16" x 28 12/16"
- SS or DS
- SS
- Tagline
- --
This was cult director Walter Hill’s debut feature film and starred action legend Charles Bronson in one of his more memorable roles. A mysterious drifter named Chaney (Bronson) arrives in New Orleans and has a chance meeting with Speed (James Coburn) an organiser of illegal bare-knuckled boxing matches. Chaney asks Speed to set him up with a fight and he quickly proves himself as a fearsome boxer. He also meets and begins a relationship with Lucy Simpson (Jill Ireland – Bronson’s wife at the time) but it’s not long before Speed’s chaotic nature and addiction to gambling begins to threaten more than just their partnership.
This was to be the only time Hill and Bronson would team up together with the director later recalling “We had kind of a falling out over the film. He thought I’d been a little too… how do I put this? Too draconian in my editing of his wife’s scenes.”
The film was originally released as Hard Times in the US.
The trailer can be watched on YouTube. Writer Josh Olson adds a commentary on the great Trailers From Hell site.