For me, that's what compelled me to tell the story, almost like to bring all of these people to the fore, to show people that they really existed, but also broaden the landscape of what we see as the Old West, show that women were strong characters and were subservient and show that people of colour, like, really had a place in that space and time.

Hello, and thanks for joining us for another episode of The Directors Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America. Today's episode takes us behind the scenes of director James

Samuel's new Western drama, The Harder They Fall. The film tells the story of an outlaw,

who reunites his old gang to track down an exact revenge on an enemy who is being released from prison.

In addition to The Hearter They Fall, Mr. Samuel's directorial credits include the feature

They Die by Dawn and the short film, Jay Z, Legacy.

Following a recent screening of the film at the DGA Theater in New York, Mr. Samuel spoke

with fellow director

Boz Lerman about filming the harder they fall. Listen on for their spoiler-failed conversation.

I got to tell you something, can I hear something about this man? So I was making a film

some time ago because I don't make them that often. And I got together with Sean J. Z. Carter.

And through him, I met this incredible person. He said, I know the person who said, I know this

person who knows who is film. He lives, he does music, but he lives, he breathes film. He is film. And once

you've met James Samuel, you know, people have that expression which is, you know, a one of a kind.

He actually is one of a kind. And he, we went through such a ride on making that film.

Always Scotland, wherever it was, James would turn up,

irrepressible energy.

But here's what I want to say,

and then I'm getting out of the way of this.

He said to me, you know, Baz, you know, I'm going to make a movie.

And he was talking about it even then.

Now, I can't tell you how many people say,

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