"The Hired Hand" is the 1971 indie western directed by/starring Peter "Easy Rider" Fonda, from a screenplay by Alan Sharp, co-starring Warren "The Wild Bunch" Oates and Verna Bloom.
Cinematography is by Vilmos Zsigmond, with a film score by Bruce Langhorne.
Premise of the film, follows a mild-mannered cowboy who returns to his abandoned wife after seven years drifting with a trail buddy throughout the southwest. Although the embittered woman will only let him stay if he agrees to move in as a 'hired hand', their relationship rekindles until people from the man's past re-enter his life.
"The Hired Hand" was released by the Sundance Channel on DVD.
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