The Hard Case is a 1995 British short film directed and written by Guy Ritchie and featured Darren Spencer as The player and Benedick Bates as a player and Wale Ojo as the gambler. A twenty-minute film, it precedes Ritchie's better known Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Trudie Styler saw The Hard Case and invested money into Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (her husband Sting would play a role in this feature film).