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Welcome to Hard Times is a 1967 American Western film directed by Burt Kennedy and starring Henry Fonda as the leader of a dying town that is too weak to stand up to a brute terrorizing the few remaining residents. It is based upon a novel by the same name by E. L. Doctorow.
- Burt Kennedy
- David Karr, Max E. Youngstein
A psychopathic gunman terrorizes a small town and its residents in the late 1800s. The film stars Henry Fonda, Janice Rule, Keenan Wynn and others, and is based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow.
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- Drama, Western
- Burt Kennedy
- 1967-06-09
A bleak and symbolic western starring Henry Fonda as a pacifistic mayor who faces a one-man rampage by Aldo Ray. The movie has low ratings from critics and audiences, and features a young Michael Shea as an orphan who learns to shoot.
- (116)
- Henry Fonda
- Burt Kennedy
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
A western film based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow, starring Henry Fonda as a mayor in a lawless town. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers and other crew members on IMDb.
Kindle $11.99. Rate this book. Welcome to Hard Times. E.L. Doctorow. 3.84. 2,290 ratings255 reviews. Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage.
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- Paperback
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A sheriff and a town face a mysterious outlaw in this adaptation of E. L. Doctorow's novel. Watch the trailer, read the synopsis, and see the cast and crew of this classic western film.
Summaries. A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild. In the town of Hard Times, a stranger rides in and terrorizes the small settlement. He kills a number of townsfolk, including Fee, the town's founder.
