This is the second time, at least, Hulu played this flick. For those who didn't see it the REAL first time, as I did, sitting in 1974 Frankfurt, Federal Republic of divided Germany, on the Abrams Complex, just off Hansa Allee, with a bunch of GI's for $.35 cents, my condolences. The military guys and gals went wild. I've only seen them react to Bill Murray in "Stripes" that way about a decade later, and not since. What innocent times, when the enemy wore a uniform, sat on the Fulda Gap 250 battalions deep, waiting to cross that Maginox line and take a piece out of Uncle's butt, long before reinforcements could be called upon.I called Germany "the new Alamo", --- so when movies came, they had to draw you in, take you away, from choices you didn't want to make.So how do you suspend disbelief? Those days the CGI consisted of moving little manniquins around one eight an inch at a time. So real movies had to do it, in the camera, with real action, believability. And what do you say about a fifty four year old guy who's built like that? Irreplaceable. You think Stallone could carry a remake? Not on your life.Everybody wants "to go get the cat." But that's not the tagline for this movie. It's the other line, and it fits reality and the fiction just dandy."He sure was something."

Tough, entertaining, briskly paced tale of bare-knuckles fighters in Depression-era New Orleans. Bronson & Coburn had great screen chemistry and should have made more 'buddy flicks' together. Bronson was indeed an underrated actor. His role in Hard Times is one of the most difficult to sell since the character has so little dialogue; yet you actually care about Chaney (and Coburn as well -- another underrated actor). Both actors had such dynamic screen presence, they're sorely missed today. Makes you wonder about whatever happened to the American male movie star. Also wonder who they'd get for these roles once the inevitable remake is announced.