HIRED HAND, THE [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1971
• Genre: Drama; Western
• Plot: Having been at the forefront of America s here-and-now with Easy Rider and the counterculture movies of Roger Corman, Peter Fonda retreated to the past and the American West for his directorial debut, The Hired Hand.; ; Fonda plays Harry, a man who deserted his wife and child to explore the wide-open plains with his best friend Archie (Warren Oates). Tired of the life , he decides to finally return home in order to rekindle his marriage and reacquaint himself with his daughter.; ; Scripted by Alan Sharp (Ulzana s Raid, Night Moves), shot by Vilmos Zsigmond (Blow Out, The Long Goodbye) and with a standout score by folk musician Bruce Langhorne, The Hired Hand is a beautiful, elegiac picture that ranks alongside The Outlaw Josey Wales and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as one of the finest Westerns the seventies had to offer.
• Cast: Peter Fonda; Warren Oates; Verna Bloom; Robert Pratt; Severn Darden; Rita Rogers; Ann Doran; Ted Markland; Owen Orr; Al Hopson; Megan Denver; Michael McClure; Gray Johnson; Len Marsal; Larry Hagman; Alan Sharp
• Director: Peter Fonda
• Runtime: 1:30
• Company: Arrow Films
• Media Format: Movie