The Hired Hand (1971) is Peter Fonda’s directorial debut, an elegiac western that was inexplicably buried by the studio. It’s a small but beautiful movie driven by three outstanding performances from Peter Fonda, Verna Bloom and Warren Oates, and a haunting score from Bob Dylan collaborator Bruce Langhorne.
Fonda stars as Harry, a burnt out drifter who returns to his wife, Hannah (Verna Bloom), and their child after years out in the American wilderness with his buddy, Arch (Warren Oates). Determined to change his ways and prove his commitment to his family, Harry renounces his old ways, but the violence that coloured his former life is never far away.
It’s kind of like Paris, Texas with guns.
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My second film is Thomas McGuane’s adaptation of his bonkers book 92 in the Shade (1975). It’s a surreal, freewheeling comedy-drama starring Peter Fonda and Warren Oates as rival tour guides in Key West, Florida, locked in a bizarre battle of wills, which gets out of hand rather quickly.
The cast list reads like a who’s who of seventies character actors. If Margot Kidder, Harry Dean Stanton, Joe Spinell and Burgess Meredith aren’t enough then there’s no helping you. It’s not the most coherent movie in the world, but it’s always amusing and another hidden gem from the seventies.
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