Trevor Rhone, Famed Jamaican Playwright, Dies at 69

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Jamaica has lost one of its brightest stars as Trevor Rhone passed at the age of 69. From NewsOne:

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Trevor Rhone, a prominent Jamaican playwright and screenwriter who co-wrote โ€œThe Harder They Come,โ€ a film classic that helped introduce the islandโ€™s pop culture to a global audience, has died. He was 69.

His brother Neville says the filmmaker died Tuesday of the consequences of a heart attack at a hospital in Jamaicaโ€™s capital of Kingston.

โ€œThe Harder They Comeโ€ was Jamaicaโ€™s first feature film. It starred reggae singer Jimmy Cliff and was an international success, winning an award at the 1973 Venice Film Festival.

The story was based on the life of Ivanhoe โ€œRhyghinโ€ Martin, a notorious outlaw who terrorized sections of west Kingston during the late 1940s.

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