Hard Traveling

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Hard Traveling
Directed byDan Bessie
Written byDan Bessie
Based onBread and a Stone
by Alvah Bessie
Produced byHelen Garvy
Starring
CinematographyDavid Myers
Edited bySusan Heick
Music byErnie Sheldon
Distributed byNew World Pictures
Release date
  • August 27, 1986 (1986-08-27) (New York City)[1]
Running time
98 minutes[2]
99 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Hard Traveling is a 1986 American drama film written and directed by Dan Bessie and starring J. E. Freeman, Ellen Geer and Barry Corbin. It is based on the 1941 novel Bread and a Stone by Alvah Bessie, the father of Dan Bessie.[1][2]

Premise[]

Illiterate and unemployed, Ed Sloan marries widowed schoolteacher Norah Gilbert and becomes the stepfather of her two sons; but after not being able to find employment, Ed ends up murdering a businessman.

Cast[]

Reception[]

Walter Goodman of The New York Times gave the film a negative review and wrote, "A true story? Sure. It's true to an ideology-generated fiction that was always false to life and to art."[1]

Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times also gave it a negative review and wrote that the film "is all the more disappointing because it so clearly could have been so much better."[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Walter Goodman (August 27, 1986). "SCREEN: 'HARD TRAVELING,' A 40'S TALE". The New York Times. Retrieved July 9, 2021. The leisurely movie, which opens today at the Embassy 72d Street, is just as plain as a Saturday Evening Post illustration.
  2. ^ a b c Kevin Thomas (September 12, 1986). "MOVIE REVIEW : 'HARD TRAVELING' NOT WORTH THE TRIP". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 9, 2021.

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