'The Shepherd of the Hills' Director: Henry Hathaway (1941) Indicator Limited Edition Blu-ray | HD remaster

When a kindly stranger, arrives in a remote Ozark community riven by hatred, he befriends a young woman and raises the ire of her fiancé, a bitter moonshiner who has sworn to kill his own father. Starring John Wayne, Betty Field, and Harry Carey.

Based on the best-selling novel by Harold Bell Wright, and boasting ravishing cinematography by Charles Lang (The Long Gray Line) and W. Howard Greene (The Magnificent Seven), Hathaway’s version of The Shepherd of the Hills was the third of no fewer than four big-screen adaptations, and was Wayne’s first film in Technicolor.

Limited Edition contents include:
- Audio commentary with academic and curator Eloise Ross (2025)
- The Return of the Exile (2017, 34 mins): archival appreciation by filmmaker and critic Bertrand Tavernier, presented with English subtitles for the first time
- Limited edition exclusive 40-page booklet with a new essay by Rick Burin, an archival report on the film’s production and its source novel’s Ozark setting, an extract from an interview with Henry Hathaway, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits