It was also released on the 1972 soundtrack album for the film The Harder They Come, in which Cliff also starred.
The film chronicles the period between 1970 and 1977 in which six low-budget films shown at midnight transformed the way films are made and watched: El Topo (1970), Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Harder They Come (1973), Pink Flamingos (1972), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and Eraserhead (1977).
Also shaping Miles's creativity was producer and musician Pelham Goddard who accompanied Miles on several of his early performances as well as his uncle, Jamaican writer and playwright Trevor Rhone whose film The Harder They Come and subsequent artistic ventures undoubtedly was a huge influence, as he witnessed the success of the author on the world stage.
He also appeared in the groundbreaking Jamaican film The Harder They Come.
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Awareness of reggae began to change in 1972 with the release of the seminal film The Harder They Come (1972), which became a cult hit that year in the UK, with its soundtrack featuring two numbers by the Maytals.
Perry Henzell (7 March 1936 in Annotto Bay, St. Mary's, Jamaica – 30 November 2006 in Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth's, Jamaica) was most famous for being the director of the first Jamaican feature film, The Harder They Come (1972) co-written by Trevor D. Rhone, starring Jimmy Cliff.
The label also released a solo single by Keith Richards in December 1978: a rendition of Chuck Berry's "Run Rudolph Run" backed by a version of Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come".
Michael Thelwell's novel The Harder They Come, derived from the film, is also a sympathetic account of his life, in which he is portrayed as an innocent victim of con-men when he first arrives in Kingston.