One of Danny's favorite movies

[middleofnowhere]

Just laying here watching Tubi and I found
Hard Times is on it the list of movies. I used to have Hard Times on cassette and Danny DiLiberto used to ask me to put it on almost every time he came in. He liked old movies like Casablanca and so on but I think his favorite contemporary movie was Hard Times. It's sort of checks all the boxes for a pool player hustling, gamble, boxing.

 

[mikemosconi]

Yes I liked that movie, too. The box it really checks is the theme of one man living off his own abilities in a non traditional manner, in a more seedy, underworld, where , at one time, only men ventured- like pool, gun slinging, etc, etc.
This was Danny's world, of course, the road less traveled, where danger and the unknown were always in play and only the strongest survived.

My Dad was this sort of character, a lone wolf, " do it your own way" tough guy, but with a real strong sense of responsibility. Funny how he encouraged all of his children NOT to go that " do it all on your own terms" route. - he knew how tough it was on that road- but some spirits just cannot and will not lie down to the norms of " society".

 

[garczar]

Great flik. Walter Hill's directorial debut.