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.
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
^ abcdWalter 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.