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Release Date: 1975

Cast: Lee Van Cleef, Jim Brown, Fred Williamson

Categories: Movies, Blaxploitation, Western, Spaghetti Western

Take a Hard Ride is a 1975 Western directed by Antonio Margheriti. It stars Lee Van Cleef, Jim Brown, and Fred Williamson. Pike, a stone faced cowboy, meets up with Tyree, a dishonest gambler. Together with a mute Indian scout, Kashtok, the trio attempts to transport $86,000 across hundreds of miles of Western wasteland to deliver it to the widow of Pike's former employer. The film is notable among 1970s B cinema for being both a blaxploitation film (one of a number teaming Brown and Williamson) and a spaghetti western, co-financed by Italian producers and filmed on location in the Canary... MORE

Take a Hard Ride is a 1975 Western directed by Antonio Margheriti. It stars Lee Van Cleef, Jim Brown, and Fred Williamson. Pike, a stone faced cowboy, meets up with Tyree, a dishonest gambler. Together with a mute Indian scout, Kashtok, the trio attempts to transport $86,000 across hundreds of miles of Western wasteland to deliver it to the widow of Pike's former employer. The film is notable among 1970s B cinema for being both a blaxploitation film (one of a number teaming Brown and Williamson) and a spaghetti western, co-financed by Italian producers and filmed on location in the Canary Islands. Director Margheriti had attempted a similarly ambitious genre hybrid the previous year with The Stranger and the Gunfighter, a spaghetti western kung fu adventure, also starring Van Cleef. One June 21, 2011 the film was released on DVD through Shout! Factory as part of a double feature with Rio Conchos. Pike (Jim Brown), the right-hand man of cattle rancher Bob Morgan (Dana Andrews), is entrusted with a mission to deliver $86,000 across the border to the Morgan Ranch in Senora, Mexico after his boss dies. Pike teams up with dishonest gambler Tyree (Fred Williamson) and are forced to trust LESS