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The Shooting
Why this pick
Its spare, sun-blasted journey and cryptic encounters share The Hired Hand’s mood of drift, moral unease, and laconic companionship.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1971 1h 30m USA
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Ride in the Whirlwind
Why this pick
A compact, fatalistic western about travelers trapped by violence, played with the same stripped-down pacing and offhand melancholy.
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Why this pick
Another 1971 western that replaces heroic swagger with weathered people, loose rhythms, and a mournful, beautifully textured frontier atmosphere.
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Dead Man
Why this pick
A dreamlike, mournful frontier odyssey with deadpan encounters and an outsider’s perspective, matching The Hired Hand’s poetic revision of western conventions.
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The Proposition
Why this pick
Its dusty visual severity and burdened characters make violence feel tragic rather than triumphant, though it is considerably harsher than The Hired Hand.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Harry Collings (Fonda) and Arch Harris (Oates) are two saddle tramps who have grown weary after seven years of wandering through the American Southwest. Along with a younger companion, Dan Griffen (Robert Pratt), they stop off in Del Norte, a ramshackle town in the middle of nowhere, which is run by the corrupt McVey (Severn Darden). Harris and Griffen discuss traveling to California to look for work when Collings abruptly informs them he has decided to return to the wife he left years before. Griffen temporarily leaves the two in a bar and goes to buy supplies. Some town thugs shoot him to death out of pure meanness. Collings and Harris escape, but they return that night. Collings shoots McVey in the feet, crippling him.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Warren Oates
Arch Harris
Verna Bloom
Hannah Collings
Ann Doran
Mrs. Sorenson
Robert Pratt
Dan Griffen
Severn Darden
McVey
Rita Rogers
Mexican Woman
Ted Markland
Luke
Owen Orr
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