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Title: ANTS Year: 1977 Rating: **** |
The legendary Humphrey Bogart's last movie, during the mid-1950's when the big message could become more important than the characters, which is the opposite of ON THE WATERFRONT that Mark Robson's extremely bias boxing scandal-expose THE HARDER THEY FALL attempts the suspenseful, brawny big city edginess of... armed gangsters ruling over muscular everymen... but in a passive, mainstream fashion...
A shame since the boxing sequences — where has-been sports-writer Bogart and his seedy promoter boss Rod Steiger have ringside seats — are filmed with brutal realism... both men making sure the opponents of their mediocre giant upstart take the same kind of fall that could have made Marlon Brando a contender....
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Humphrey Bogart and Rod Steiger in The Harder They Fall channels On The Waterfront
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The main problem are the bad guys — all short of sporting menacing little mustaches — lacking intriguingly vicious bravado that'd make them worth rooting against... and Steiger can be a lot of fun to hate, like in AL CAPONE with the same tough yet vulnerable sidekick in Nehemiah Persoff...
While Bogart, despite starting-out reluctantly alongside Steiger in the rigged-game before predictably coming around, lacks the enigmatic moral ambiguity that underlined his early game-changing film noirs... characters bordering on crooked and dependable... yet here he's more a passenger along for the ride: somewhat having to do with his impending illness but mostly caused by the bland screenplay.
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Rod Steiger in THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Humphrey Bogart and Harold J. Stone in THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Mike Lane in THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Felice Orlandi and Nehemiah Persoff in THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Humphrey Bogart and Rod Steiger in THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Humphrey Bogart and Rod Steiger in THE HARDER THEY FALL with Val Avery
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Credits for THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Credits for THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Credits for THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Mike Lane and Rod Steiger in THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Humphrey Bogart and Rod Steiger in THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Humphrey Bogart and Rod Steiger in THE HARDER THEY FALL with Max Baer |
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Marian Carr and Felice Orlandi in THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Marian Carr and Felice Orlandi in THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Felice Orlandi in THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Felice Orlandi in THE HARDER THEY FALL with Humphrey Bogart |
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Mike Lane in THE HARDER THEY FALL with Max Baer |
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Mike Lane in THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Humphrey Bogart in THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Humphrey Bogart in THE HARDER THEY FALL with Rod Steiger and Nehemiah Persoff
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Mike Lane in THE HARDER THEY FALL with Carlos Montalbán
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Mike Lane in THE HARDER THEY FALL with Carlos Montalbán and Humphrey Bogart
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Marian Carr and Felice Orlandi in THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Humphrey Bogart and Nehemiah Persoff in THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Future Al Capone partners Rod Steiger and Nehemiah Persoff in THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Humphrey Bogart and Mike Lane in THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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Humphrey Bogart and Mike Lane in THE HARDER THEY FALL |
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