The Hired Hand (Universal, 1971)
. California dreamin’ . . In the early 1970s Westerns got a bit ‘different’, out of the mainstream, not to say weird. Let’s call them alternative. Take 1971: of course ‘straight’ Westerns continued (the likes of Big Jake or Support Your Local Sheriff) and junk spaghettis from Italy were also still being churned out in great numbers […]