February 8, 1973 –
The cult classic film The Harder They Come (the breakthough film for Reggae music in the US,) was released in New York by Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, on this date.
The movie is in Jamaican Patois, a creole language which can be understood to some extent by English speakers. There are subtitles in English for much of the movie on the original theatrical print.
