Sameir Ali Musician Jimmy Cliff plays the lead role. He is coming to the new town. He is in search of a job. Food-less and homeless, he wanders around in search of a job. Finally, he comes to a preacher. He takes up the job as a mechanic. He meets a young girl there and falls in love.The movie is a cult entertainer. There are so many mistakes of beauty. Music and violence leads the movie a entertaining. The language may be little hard for normal audience, in that case better to watch with sub titles."You Can Get It If You Really Want..." this should be in your minds after watching the film.#KiduMovie

cykolinks The film follows Ivan, a young country boy with dreams of making a reggae song that will change his life. However, soon after arriving in the city he realises that finding a job and getting himself noticed as a singer will not be easy. After making his song, and being taken advantage of by his record company he is forced to deal drugs to survive, despite his growing popularity.Although the acting is all good, and the story is interesting and well laid out, the film suffers slightly from over dramatised action scenes. However, a thoroughly enjoyable portrayal of 70's Jamaica, and (if you enjoy reggae) an incredible soundtrack.

jc-osms Eminently watchable rags to well, rags story of the country boy coming to the big city to try to make his name as a singer and getting caught up in drugs, extortion and ultimately violence as his dreams end in a tragic shoot-out that's one part "Butch Cassidy" to one part "Bonnie & Clyde". Of course what makes this erstwhile hackneyed B-Movie Hollywood tale come alive is the transposition to Jamaica, the naturalistic direction and acting styles, and last but not least the superb reggae soundtrack with Cliff himself contributing many of the key songs. It's not too often in a movie of this type that the singer's "Hear my song" plea actually is in support of a terrific song ("Dreamgirls" mediocre soundtrack immediately comes to mind) but here when the record production team and session players praise up the title track, you know they're not kidding. The rest of his songs are great too, all attesting to some kind of human struggle, even the more languid "Sitting in Limbo" and of course the self - explanatory "You can get it if you really want". Yes the story gets a bit lost with characters of varying importance drifting in and out along the way but the sheer honest exuberance of the direction (hand - held camera shots to the fore) and obviously inexperienced acting troupe deliver a convincing movie experience. What a shame that Cliff's own star got eclipsed with the rise of Bob Marley - here he shows his considerable singing, song-writing and acting skills and as I say I'm sorry he failed to kick on in any of these fields after this triumph. By the way, it helps to have the sub-titles on if you're not au-fait with West Indian patois.

Bucs1960 Back in the day it seemed that everybody had the soundtrack to this film but very few had seen it. As years went on, THTC begin to gain a cult status and became more readily available. It is probably one of the few movies with spoken English that is sub-titled. The patois which was created by the Rastafarians to replace Jamaican English (considered the language of slaves) is very difficult to understand, so the sub-titled version is recommended.The film stars the dynamic Jimmy Cliff as the "rude boy" Ivan who gets on the wrong side of a record producer who only wants to pay him a pittance for the song he has recorded. Things go from bad to worse and Ivan kills a cop, among others. Then the song becomes a hit and Ivan becomes a folk hero, running from the police. The ending is a little bit of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" as Ivan faces down his many pursuers for one last shoot out.This is not the Jamaica that we see in travel brochures but the real thing......poverty stricken and unlovely; however it has a terrible beauty of its own. Of course, the music is something you dream about, if you are a lover of reggae, ska and rocksteady. Nobody does it like Jimmy Cliff. He is simply phenomenal. Don't miss it!!!