Henry Fonda was rounding 60 when he started working in a handsome number of Westerns, particularly 1965’s The Rounders, directed by Burt Kennedy. The next picture Kennedy made with Fonda was an odd choice, Welcome to Hard Times. Based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow, it’s a thick allegorical story, so spare and dusty, it almost resembles a Spaghetti Western, or something akin to High Plains Drifter. In the picture a man visits the town of Hard Times, killing or burning nearly everybody and an
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