PERRY once wrote . . .
I had a choice when I set out to make THE HARDER THEY COME  in 1972 – to make a film for Jamaicans or to make a film for the  rest of the world. I chose to make a film for Jamaica.
 
When no distributor would pick it up, I went to 43 different countries over 6 years to sell THE HARDER THEY COME. I carried the film cans to theatre owners all over the world, sometimes paid in kind, sometimes never paid at all.  Many times I was told to forget I had ever made this movie and move on.
 
Over 30 years later, we have a new digitally remastered high definition 35mm print (a format which didn’t exist when the film was made) a stage musical based on the film broke box office records in London and the soundtrack is listed as one of the  best soundtracks of all time. Jamaican culture and music continue to excite the imagination of the rest of the world; I think I made the right choice. M.P.H. - 2006.

PERRY also wrote . . .

Films:

*  The Harder They Come (1972) 

      (co‐written with Trevor Rhone)

*  No Place Like Home (2009)

Plays:

*  The Harder They Come – Stage Musical (2003)

*  Cane

*  Power Game

Books:

*  Cane Power Game

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