Following the Friday Film Club season's theme of anti-heroes taking on "the man", Jimmy Cliff is electrifying as Ivanhoe Martin, a country boy who comes to the city looking for work. He lands a record contract, cutting the eponymous track for an unscrupulous local producer who exploits him. After a bitter dispute, he resorts to petty crime to pay the bills, as his record tops the charts. Director Perry Henzell's all-Jamaican production portrays the vibrancy, [read more…]