Hard Traveling

Hard Traveling
Directed by	Dan Bessie
Written by	Dan Bessie
Based on	Bread and a Stone by Alvah Bessie
Produced by	Helen Garvy
Starring	J. E. Freeman Ellen Geer Barry Corbin
Cinematography	David Myers
Edited by	Susan Heick
Music by	Ernie Sheldon
Distributed by	New World Pictures
Release date	August 27, 1986 (1986-08-27) (New York City)[1]
Running time	98 minutes[2] 99 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English

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

• J. E. Freeman as Ed Sloan
• Ellen Geer as Norah Gilbert Sloan
• Barry Corbin as Frank Burton
• James Gammon as Sergeant Slattery
• Jim Haynie as Lieutenant Fisher
• W. Scott DeVenney as Bill Gilbert

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. 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. Kevin Thomas (September 12, 1986). "MOVIE REVIEW : 'HARD TRAVELING' NOT WORTH THE TRIP". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 9, 2021.

External links

• Hard Traveling at IMDb
• Hard Traveling at Rotten Tomatoes