After slaughtering the soldiers, Buck and his gang arrive in their former stronghold of Redwood City, now run by Buck's associate, Sheriff Wiley Escoe. They reveal Buck has been pardoned, and they have been paid to kill the corrupt U.S. Pickett brings news of the heist to Love.īuck's gang, led by Trudy Smith and Cherokee Bill, forcefully free Buck from a train leaving from Yuma Territorial Prison.

Love travels to meet his former lover Mary Fields, who runs a chain of saloons. The lone survivor tells them the $25,000 they have stolen belongs to Buck. Meanwhile, his partners, sharpshooter Bill Pickett and quick draw Jim Beckwourth, ambush the Crimson Hood gang and steal their haul from a recent bank robbery. Twenty years later, Love finds and kills Cortez. Nat's father begs Buck for forgiveness but Buck guns down Nat's parents and then carves a cross into his forehead. The film received generally positive reviews for its ensemble cast as well as Samuel's direction and score.ġ1-year-old Nat Love is eating dinner with his parents when Rufus Buck and his associate Cortez arrive. It received a limited release on October 22, 2021, prior to streaming on Netflix on November 3.

The Harder They Fall premiered at the BFI London Film Festival on October 6, 2021. Its characters are loosely based on real cowboys, lawmen, and outlaws of the nineteenth-century American West. It is one of few Westerns whose principal cast members are all black.

The film stars Jonathan Majors, Idris Elba, Zazie Beetz, Regina King, Delroy Lindo, Lakeith Stanfield, RJ Cyler, Danielle Deadwyler, Edi Gathegi, and Deon Cole. The Harder They Fall is a 2021 American Western film directed by Jeymes Samuel (in his feature directorial debut), who co-wrote the screenplay with Boaz Yakin.

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