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1975
Directed by Antonio Margheriti
Synopsis
It Rides With The Great Westerns
After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Sonora, Mexico. Honest Pike is joined on the trip through the wilderness by a dishonest gambler named Tyree.
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Cast
Jim Brown Lee Van Cleef Fred Williamson Catherine Spaak Jim Kelly Barry Sullivan Dana Andrews Harry Carey, Jr. Robert Donner Charles McGregor Leonard Smith Ronald Howard Ricardo Palacios Buddy Joe Hooker Paul Costello Hal Needham George Rigaud Dean Selmier
DirectorDirector
Antonio Margheriti
ProducersProducers
Harry Bernsen Maria Luisa Alcaraz Leon Chooluck
WritersWriters
Eric Bercovici Jerrold L. Ludwig
EditorEditor
Stanford C. Allen
CinematographyCinematography
Riccardo Pallottini
Assistant DirectorsAsst. Directors
Scott Maitland José López Rodero
Additional DirectingAdd. Directing
Hal Needham
Camera OperatorCamera Operator
Carlo Tafani
Additional PhotographyAdd. Photography
Raúl Pérez Cubero
Art DirectionArt Direction
Julio Molina
Special EffectsSpecial Effects
Luciano D'Achille Antonio Molina
StuntsStunts
Hal Needham Juan Maján
ComposerComposer
Jerry Goldsmith
SoundSound
Jim Willis Theodore Soderberg
Costume DesignCostume Design
Agustín Jiménez
MakeupMakeup
Carmen Martín
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Bernsen-Ludwig-Bercovici Production Cine Y Television Euro International Films
Countries
Italy Spain USA
Language
English
Alternative Titles
Der schwarze Cowboy, Tote brauchen keine Dollars, Einen vor den Latz geknallt, La parola di un fuorilegge... è legge!, Por la senda más dura, La Chevauchée terrible, Για μια χούφτα χρυσάφι, Cesta do Sonory, De red for livet, Cavalagada Fantástica, Los buitres, Cavalgada Infernal, 生死关头走一遭, Выбери трудный путь, Osiemdziesiąt sześć tysięcy dolarów
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Western Action
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Theatrical
29 Oct 1975
USAPG
31 Oct 1975
- Germany16
26 Oct 1976
- Spain16
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Germany
31 Oct 1975
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Spain
26 Oct 1976
- Theatrical16Original Film Rating: Over 14 years of age or childrenaccompanied
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29 Oct 1975
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Review by Keith G ★★★★ 2
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28 - Westerns!
20 - Blaxploitation!When his good hearted employer (Dana Andrews) dies, his final request is for his trusted trail boss Pike (Jim Brown) to transport 86,000 dollars payroll money to a ranch in Mexico. Pike, a reformed criminal sets out, gathering an entourage as he goes, made up of suave gambler Tyree (Fred Williamson) with one eye on the money, a former prostitute (Catherine Spaak), her mute Kung Fu fighting half breed protector, Kashtok (Jim Kelly) and a young Mexican boy (Name Unknown?). Among the many with their eye on the money are a ruthless bounty hunter (Lee Van Cleef), a crooked sheriff (Barry Sullivan), two of Pike's pokes (Robert Donner and Harry Carey) and…
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Review by Andy Summers 🤠 ★★★½
When it comes to Westerns, my German buddy Einar is the go-to guy for recommendations within the Spaghetti Western subgenre. We may have similar totals when it comes to films watched within the Western genre, but my 22 Spaghetti Westerns must be dwarfed by Einar's totals, where he knows his Corbucci's from his Margheriti's, his Parolini's from his Santis, and I bow down to his superior knowledge within a subgenre I've barely scratched the surface of. Take a Hard Ride is a Spaghettis Western with a difference, because even though we have the presence of legendary Spaghetti Western icon Lee Van Cleef, he remains on the periphery of the action as the film focuses on lead character Jim Brown's Pike,…
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Review by Jordan James Brooks ★★★
“Dying is a way of life for some people, Tyree. Make sure you don’t have that problem.”
Another late Spaghetti Western here. Antonio Margheriti’s film came just a year or two shy of Keoma and California- the two films that best closed the genre, before it would become largely obsolete with just a sprinkling of features in the decades that followed. Take a Hard Ride stars Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef, in what must’ve been one of his very last appearances in a Euro Western.
The plot follows the trail boss Pike (Brown) as he travels across the desert on a perilous mission to deliver his deceased employer’s payroll to a ranch in Sonora, Mexico. He is joined by…
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Review by sakana1 ★★★½ 5
Particularly known for his gialli and exploitation films (Castle of Blood, Cannibal Apocalypse), in his spaghetti westerns, director Antonio Margheriti showed a surprisingly dexterity with genre blending. Starting with And God Said to Cain, which leaned aggressively into horror, and continuing with The Stranger and the Gunfighter, a buddy action/comedy spaghetti western, the director then turned to blaxploitation with Take a Hard Ride, a film with the same stars as Gordon Parks Jr.'s fantastic, subversive Three The Hard Way, made in the previous year: Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly (who plays a supporting role here), and Jim Brown.
Though Take a Hard Ride spends very little time addressing the racial issues that are the focus of Three the Hard Way, it…
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Review by Geoffrey Broomer ★★★
When Dana Andrews suffers a fatal heart attack, his companion, Jim Brown, finds himself entrusted with 86 grand. Word of this wealth soon leads cutthroats to Brown, where a charismatic gambler of dubious moral fibre, Fred Williamson, comes to his aid. The duo begrudgingly Take A Hard Ride together while a bloodthirsty bounty hunter, Lee Van Cleef, amasses a gang to pursue them.
Antonio Margherti delivers a constantly moving travelogue that functions as a reasonable starring vehicle for the former athletes, but the scripts structure leaves something to be desired. Van Cleef has few verbal interactions with the duo, so the bulk of his screentime is intimidating the likes of Harry Carey Jr. This offers the western veteran few opportunities,…
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Review by Michael Shawn ★★★★½
I honestly give up with people's low-ass ratings on great movies. It makes me wonder why they bother to watch movies at all if they hate them all so much. That's why I tend to rate on the high side. I generally find something to like in almost everything. But this was a fan-fucking-tastic western, blistering heat scorching out of the screen and Jim Brown and Fred Williamson as the baddest motherfuckers you ever saw, tasked with delivering an $86,000 payload to the people it belongs to while armies of desperate men follow them looking for easy money. Both leads make indelible impressions, owning the screen and making the case for unconventional western heroes. And scowl-faced Lee Van Cleef, while…
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Review by Adam Hursey ★★★½
Second western in a row for me. An unexpected journey but I'm glad to be here.
One thing about having not seen a lot of westerns, I'm not really familiar with the tropes. I'm guessing that the plot here is pretty standard territory, but I enjoyed it as if it is very fresh.
Here we get the story of Pike (Jim Brown--RIP), a trusted man whose boss dies. Before his death, the boss asks Pike to bring $86,000 to some families in Mexico. Pike agrees and sets out on his long journey. Of course, a man carrying that much money around automatically has a target on his back. While he is joined by a no good gambler named Tyree (Fred…
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Review by SpaghettiNoir ★★★
Despite having all the right ingredients to be a badass blaxploitation/spaghetti western hybrid - Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, and Jim Kelly teaming up directly after Three the Hard Way; Lee Van Cleef as the villain; and Antonio Margheriti directing - Take a Hard Ride is somehow just run of the mill. I was surprised to hear Jerry Goldsmith instead of Ennio, Riz, or Stelvio though.
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Review by Jay D 's Watching ★★★
Strange that they didn't put 'From the director of YOR: The Hunter from the Future' on the DVD Case for this. Anyway, Antoniio Margheriti is enough of a seasoned pro to keep the numerous gunfight/chase scenes feeling like an organic part of the story (Which is essentially itself one long chase sequence) and let his extremely charismatic cast (Lee Van Cleef with bad hair! Fred Williamson chewing cigars!) do most of the heavy lifting--the scenery takes care of the rest, and though the film is essentially a straightforward genre exercise, there are some nods towards frontier racism. Additionally, more westerns would benefit from having someone like Jim Kelly busting out the spin kicks on the cowboys trying to run him down.
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Review by Lorenzo ★★★½
My first Antonio Margheriti film and this one was a joy to watch, thanks to the great chemistry between the two leads, Jim Brown and Fred Williamson as Pike and Tyree, respectively.
Pike is left in charge of $86,000 dollars after the sudden death of his boss. He promised him that he will return the money to his wife and some families near the border of Mexico. All type of people, starts chasing after him, once they find out that he has possession of the money including Tyree, a gambler and a bounty hunter named Kiefer, played by Lee Van Cleef, in his usual cool demeanor. Pike also meets Kashtok (Jim Kelly) and Catherine (Catherine Spaak) along the way. It…
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Review by Luke Thorne ★★
Antonio Margherti’s western in which a trial boss accepts a fading man’s final request to take the 86,000-dollar earnings of a cattle drive back to the Mexican area of Sonora.
After the demise of his boss (Dana Andrews), cowboy Pike (Jim Brown) undertakes a dangerous undertaking to transport $86,000 to the widow of his manager. With lots and lots of miles of desert landscape and nasty and selfish men between him and his location, Pike joins forces with Tyree (Fred Williamson), a treacherous gambler, to better his odds at making it alive. As Pike and Tyree face one assault after another, no one poses more of a danger than Kiefer (Lee Van Cleef), a sneaky bounty hunter.
Jim Brown and…
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Review by dankwit
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