Perry Henzell's 1972 cult-hit film The Harder They Come gave a bigger boost to Jamaica's music business than to its movie business, but Henzell's success did indirectly inspire the production of Rockers, a 1978 realist reggae drama that's arguably a better film, as well as a better explication of what the island's music is all about. Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace plays an unemployed drummer who hustles independent records by day and hustles for gigs by night. In both cases, he has to deal with the local crime bosses, and when his motorbike goes mysteriously missing, he rallies his cohorts for a daring midnight burglary at a mob office. Meanwhile, he bounces from club to club, grousing about how the true reggae sound is being undone by disco-loving tourists. Writer-director Theodoros Bafaloukos presents all this as his own naturalist Rastafarian version of The Bicycle Thief, but he breaks with documentary style by having Wallace address the camera directly, and take frequent stops to puff on a ganja pipe and dance.