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The Hired Hand (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 26, 2008
- Originally Released: 1971
- Label: Showtime
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Fonda, Warren Oates & Verna Bloom | |
Performer: | Robert Pratt, Severn Darden, Ted Markland & Larry Hagman | |
Directed by | Peter Fonda | |
Edited by | Frank Mazzola | |
Screenwriting by | Alan Sharp | |
Composition by | Bruce Langhorne | |
Produced by | William Hayward | |
Director of Photography: | Vilmos Zsigmond |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[With] poetic use of montage and lush lens work by Vilmos Zsigmond....Bruce Langhorne's period soundtrack mesmerizes, and the cast's raw performances prove HAND worthy of an encore...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 7/10 --
Now that it has been restored, people are beginning to realize it got a bum rap back in the day.
Planet S Magazine
Mixed in with the delicate, naturalistic performances... is a sense of stylistic experimentation that also feels thoroughly new.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
[T]he complexity of the characters' relationships and the shimmering splendour of Vilmos Zsigmond's photography make this one of the standout Westerns of the 1970s.
Sight and Sound
Fonda's direction is especially sure in his creation of the near deserted town whose men have met life's indifference by succumbing to it.
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Los Angeles Free Press
A touching and absurd example of the hippie western.
Village Voice
If Dennis Hopper dismantles revisionist-Western ennui in The Last Movie, Fonda embellishes it with poetic muddiness
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CinePassion
Product Description:
Peter Fonda's superb yet little-seen directorial debut subverts the machismo of the Western genre with a quiet, understated tale of relationships and loyalty in the Wild West. Fonda stars as Harry Collings, a drifter who has been roaming from town to town with his close friend and fellow wanderer Arch Harris (Warren Oates). Collings is haunted by memories of the wife (Verna Bloom) and daughter he abandoned and decides to make amends and return to them, offering penance by working on the family farmstead as a hired hand. But his newfound domesticity is threatened when Arch is taken hostage by an enemy they affronted in their travels, and Collings must choose between family responsibility or loyalty to his friend. Beautifully shot by Oscar-winning cinematographer Vilmos Szigmond (DELIVERANCE, MCCABE & MRS. MILLER) and hauntingly scored by acclaimed composer Bruce Langhorne, THE HIRED HAND is a sensitive drama that prompted Jane Fonda to declare that her brother had made "the first feminist Western."
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- Sales Rank: 129,387
- UPC: 758445902327
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