The Hired Hand
- IMDb link: 0067204
- IMDb rating: 6.9 (4,139 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, Western
- Director: Peter Fonda
- Cast: Warren Oates, Verna Bloom, Robert Pratt and others
- Release date: 17 Jul 1971
- Release year: 1971
- Runtime: 90 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: best friend, farm, death of protagonist, revisionist western, old west, bathing in a river, fishing, river, three friends, swimming
Plot
Storyline
Harry returns home to his wife and farm after drifting with his friend Arch and has to make a difficult decision regarding his loyalties.
Roaming from town to town, Harry Collings and his best friend, Arch Harris, are two weary wanderers tired of drifting off to a meaningless life, after seven years in the wilderness of the Wild West. Inevitably, knowing that there is nothing left for him but to return home, Harry feels the urgent need to reconnect with his alienated wife he abandoned when he was still a beardless youth and embrace once more his little daughter who believes her father is dead. Hesitantly, the estranged and embittered wife will take Collings back as a hired hand on her farm, however, the past, in the person of the villainous McVey threatens to catch up with him. Is Harry's fate inescapable?
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