{"id":38859,"date":"2025-05-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38859"},"modified":"2025-05-02T22:06:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T02:06:49","slug":"three-the-hard-way-1974-starring-jim-brown-fred-williamson-and-jim-kelly-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38859","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Three the Hard Way&#8221; (1974) starring Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z050325zview_3hardway.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"764\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Three the Hard Way <\/strong><\/em>(1974)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Gordon Parks Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Eric Bercovici, Jerrold L. Ludwig<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Jim Brown, Fred Williamson<\/strong><strong>, Jim Kelly, Sheila Frazier, Jay Robinson, Richard Angarola, Marian Collier,<br \/>\nAlex Rocco, Corbin Bernsen<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Howard Platt.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Action explodes all over the place when the big three join forces to save their race!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Jimmy Lait&#8217;s (Brown) friend unexpectedly shows up with a gunshot wound, Lait gets him to a hospital.\u00a0 Almost delirious and dying, Lait&#8217;s friend says &#8220;they&#8217;re going to kill us all&#8230; just us&#8221;.\u00a0 Later that night, Lait&#8217;s friend is executed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lait does some digging and learns that a white supremist group plans to poison the water supply of Detroit, Washington, D.C. and LA.\u00a0 The poison is fatal only to African Americans.\u00a0 Lait recruits two of his friends, Jagger Daniels (Williamson) and Mister Keyes (Kelly) to help him take down the Neo-Nazis before they can wipe out thousands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I was in ninth grade my girlfriend and I went to see <em>Three the Hard Way<\/em>.\u00a0 It was playing as part of a double feature with <em>Return of the Dragon<\/em>.\u00a0 When my girlfriend (now my wife) realized the plot of <em>Three the Hard Way<\/em>, she whispered, &#8220;We&#8217;re the only white people in here.&#8221;\u00a0 I said, &#8220;We&#8217;ll be alright.&#8221;\u00a0 And of course we were.\u00a0 I liked <em>Three the Hard Way<\/em> a lot better seeing it in a theater in the ninth grade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em> Three the Hard Way<\/em> features Corbin Bernsen&#8217;s first credited feature film role.\u00a0 Corbin&#8217;s father was co-producer of the film.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of kung fu and blaxploitation movies, you should enjoy <em>Three the Hard Way<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Three the Hard Way <\/strong><\/em>(1974) rates 2 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z050325zview_3hardway2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three the Hard Way (1974) Director:\u00a0 Gordon Parks Jr. Screenplay: Eric Bercovici, Jerrold L. 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