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.