The Harder They Come is a film that was release in 1973, produced by Perry Henzell's with singer/actor Jimmy Cliff playing the leading character and Prince Buster as a young up and coming dj. The film is based off a Jamaican public enemy number one who was loved by the the poor and hated by the rich. Ivanhoe Rhygin was like the Robin Hood of Jamaica, he use to rob the rich and give to the down and out in the ghetto. Ivanhoe Rhygin was in his time the baddest Jamaican rude boy of all in the 1950's, known all over the island of Jamaica as the two-gun slinger, Rhygin wanted by the law but they could not catch him, the people he help would hide him away from the Jamaican police and soldiers. Rhygin also had the speed of an Olympic sprinter and the jumping skills to scale high fences. There were two bad rude boys of the 1940 era in Jamaica. First Ivanhoe Rhygin and then later on a Rastafarian by the name of Wappi King, but two gun slinger kid, Rhygin was the baddest. Ivanhoe Rhygin was a fearless showboat type of bad boy, whenever he committed a crime like robbing someone he would send photographs of himself with hand on his six shooters to Jamaica Daily Gleaner newspaper. Eventually, the two gun kid got mow down by both the police and soldiers. Ivanhoe Rhygin tried to jump ship to the island of Cuba. Rhygin had a friend who was a cabin boy on the ship to Cuba. The idea was that Rhygin was to jump in the sea as the ship was moving off and the cabin boy would throw a rope over the side of the ship, but two gun Rhygin fell short of the rope and had to swim across to Cayman Island. The police and solders was tipped of that Rhygin was hiding on the island. Rhygin's life ended in a blaze of glory in a shoot out with the police and soldiers in which the two gun slinger, Ivanhoe Rhygin's body was obliterated with bullet holes. |
