In the unfortunately small stack of black Westerns in cinema history, The Harder They Fall might be overcooked, but, crucially, it’s a fun entry to the genre.

Leave your saddlebags at the door and mount up for one hell of a ride.

Westerns were always fantasies, but The Harder They Fall is so abstract a fantasy it barely feels like a Western more a series of poses involving cowboy outfits, six-shooters and desert landscapes.

With The Harder They Fall, Jeymes Samuel gives a voice to those who existed but were rarely heard, and issues in a new and exciting era for the Western genre.