Peter fonda directed and starred in this rather downbeat western The Hired Hand.
He plays a man who tried settling down as a farmer with a wife Verna Bloom and
a daughter who now thinks he's dead.
But after a few years of some hellraising with Warren Oates, Fonda is getting nostalgic for home and hearth. He goes back, but has to pretend he's just a hired hand at least temporarily by the rules set down by Bloom.
Turns out she knows her husband only too well.
It's an interesting character study, but has a lot of dry spells and a bit more action is definitely called for. Oates who never disappoints steals the film in the scenes he's in, but the best acting performance far and away is from Verna Bloom..
But after a few years of some hellraising with Warren Oates, Fonda is getting nostalgic for home and hearth. He goes back, but has to pretend he's just a hired hand at least temporarily by the rules set down by Bloom.
Turns out she knows her husband only too well.
It's an interesting character study, but has a lot of dry spells and a bit more action is definitely called for. Oates who never disappoints steals the film in the scenes he's in, but the best acting performance far and away is from Verna Bloom..