Product Description

Take a tough-as-nails trail boss (Jim Brown of THE DIRTY DOZEN and THREE THE HARD WAY), a smooth gambler (Fred Williamson of BLACK CAESAR and BUCKTOWN) and a ruthless bounty hunter (Lee Van Cleef of THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY). Add a mute martial arts master (Jim Kelly of ENTER THE DRAGON), a desperate prostitute (Catherine Spaak of CAT O’ NINE TAILS) and hundreds of greed-crazed gunmen. Turn them all loose in a chase to the Mexican border for a fortune in gold, and you have the action-packed epic that brings together the worlds of ‘Blaxploitation’ and classic Westerns like never before! Hollywood legends Dana Andrews (LAURA, THE OXBOW INCIDENT), Barry Sullivan (FORTY GUNS, THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL) and Harry Carey Jr. (RED RIVER, THE SEARCHERS) co-star in this adventure hit that rides hard as one of the last great Westerns of the decade!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30626 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-01-17
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 103 minutes

Customer Reviews

Go For The Gold
Take A Hard Ride starring Jim Brown,Lee Van Cleef,Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly features alot of gunplay and action,going for the gold plot,Brown has the task of hauling a good size bankroll from one destination to another and everybody from every side of the county wants a piece of the action,including Van Cleef who plays a ruthless bounty hunter,Brown can't figure out if Williamson who plays a gambler is friend or foe and Kelly is a mute bodyguard for Catherine Spaak who is also after the money,Take A Hard Ride,delivers the goods yet something seems to be missing in this one,everything seems to get caught up in a whirlwind,good audio,video,Anchor Bay,16x9 widescreen.

Take a Hard Ride
One of my favorite western movies. I have always liked Jim Brown's westerns. He was in great form in this one. Lee Van Clief was great as the bounty hunter. The surprise was Jim Kelly. Some of his best martial arts fight scenes are on this movie. This is the type on movie I can watch over and over again.

Brown and Williamson Soul of Film
"Take a Hard Ride" barely transcends the routine. What distinguishes it from other films of it's ilk is the chemistry between Jim Brown's iconic trail boss and Fred Williamson's suave gambler. The two riff off each other like a smooth running machine. One could only imagine if their talent were better utilized by more skilled craftsmen like, say, Sergio Leone. A bonus is the presence of Leone veteran Lee Van Cleef who may be grayer but hasn't lost any of his steely eyed menace. The film disappoints, however, because it doesn't deliver on the promise of a satisfying showdown between Brown and Van Cleef's characters.