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Arrow Films

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.

Special Features

  • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the feature, transferred from original film elements by Universal
  • Uncompressed Mono 1.0 PCM Audio
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Audio commentary by actor-director Peter Fonda
  • The Return of The Hired Hand, a 2003 documentary containing interviews with Fonda, cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, composer Bruce Langhorne, actor Verna Bloom and others
  • Deleted scenes
  • Trailer
  • TV spots
  • Radio spots
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sean Phillips

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You can always tell a man who's got something on his mind. He keeps talkin' to himself.

The Hired Hand has a lot going on just beneath a fairly tamped down surface, and for that reason some viewers may feel there isn't anything going on. Even for those folks, Vilmos Zsigmond's lovely cinematography and Bruce Langhorne's wonderful score may provide more than enough distraction, and the film is also graced with nice, lived in feeling, performances from the principal cast. Technical merits are solid, and Arrow has also provided some enjoyable supplements.

2025-04-03by Vishal**Verified Purchase**

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