Title: The Hard Way (1991 film)
Content:  The Hard Way is a 1991 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by John Badham, and starring Michael J. Fox and James Woods. Stephen Lang, Annabella Sciorra, Luis Guzmán, LL Cool J, Delroy Lindo, Christina Ricci, Mos Def, Kathy Najimy, Michael Badalucco, Lewis Black, and Penny Marshall appear in supporting roles.
Title: The Hard Way (1916 film)
Content:  The Hard Way is a 1916 British silent crime film directed by Walter West and starring Muriel Martin-Harvey, Joseph Tozer and Thomas H. MacDonald. It was the first film to be shot at Broadwest's newly acquired Walthamstow studios. Its plot concerns an English artist's wife who commits bigamy in Paris.
Title: The Hard Way (1991 film)
Content:  The movie debuted at No. 3 behind The Silence of the Lambs and New Jack City. The Hard Way went on to earn $65.6 million worldwide.
Title: Three the Hard Way (film)
Content:  Three the Hard Way is a 1974 action blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks Jr., written by Eric Bercovici and Jerrold L. Ludwig and starring Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, and Jim Kelly.
Title: The Hard Way (1943 film)
Content: Gladys George as Lily Emery ; Faye Emerson as Ice Cream Parlor Waitress ; Paul Cavanagh as John "Jack" Shagrue ; Dolores Moran as Young Blonde (uncredited) ; Emory Parnell as Policeman (uncredited) 
Title: The Hard Way (1943 film)
Content:  The Hard Way is a 1943 Warner Bros. musical drama film directed by Vincent Sherman and starring Ida Lupino. The film was based on a story by Irwin Shaw which was reportedly based on Ginger Rogers' relationship with her first husband, Jack Pepper (whom she married in 1928 at age 17) and her own mother, Lela.
Title: The Hard Way (1991 film)
Content:  film industry" and stated, "Badham handles the numerous action sequences with confidence, but the real enjoyment comes from the interplay between the two leads, who revel in the opportunity to send up their images." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it three-and-a-half out of four stars and praised its "comic energy", calling the film "funny, fun, exciting, and [...] an example of professionals who know their crafts and enjoy doing them well." Ebert said the stunts, special effects, and second unit work were "all seamless and exciting", and viewed that the actors elevate the film's plot with their performances: "[T]he film makers crank up the energy until the movie takes on a life of its own. [...] There 
Title: The Hard Way (1991 film)
Content:  a certain exhilarating, high-altitude buzz you get from actors who are working well at the limits of their ability. Faced with a plot that was potentially predictable, Woods and Fox seem to have agreed to crank up the voltage, to take the chance of playing every scene flat-out." Ty Burr of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a C rating and criticized it as having "coyly self-conscious high concept", writing that "takes the [action-buddy-cop genre] to such a numbing dead end." Burr panned its chase scenes and editing as "visual nonsense" and called its plot "all guns and gag lines", although he found Fox "secure enough to goof on his own image and inventive enough to do it well".
Title: The Hard Way (1943 film)
Content: "Unconvincing but well mounted drama." ; Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Film Guide, Eighth edition, revised and updated, edited by John Walker, © 1992 Ruth Halliwell and John Walker. HarperCollinsPublishers, Inc. 
Title: The Hard Way (1916 film)
Content: Muriel Martin-Harvey - Lilah Chertsey ; Joseph Tozer - Noel Creighton ; Thomas H. MacDonald - Arnold Graves ; Lily Saxby - Clarice Creighton ; George Bellamy - Lepine ; Owen Francis - Martin Graves 

Question: Who was the director of The Hard Way?
Answer: Vincent Sherman.
Abraham Orovitz.