| Hard Traveling | |
| Director: | Dan Bessie |
| Producer: | Helen Garvy |
| Music: | Ernie Sheldon |
| Cinematography: | David Myers |
| Editing: | Susan Heick |
| Distributor: | New World Pictures |
| Runtime: | 98 minutes 99 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
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.
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]