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The Ballad of Cable Hogue

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The Ballad of Cable Hogue
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NR,2hrs 2min
Genres:
Western,Comedy,Romance
Released:
May 13, 1970
Director:
Sam Peckinpah
Distributor:
Warner Bros. Pictures
Starring:
Jason Robards, Jr., Stella Stevens, David Warner  ...more
Synopsis: After the intense bloodshed of The Wild Bunch (1969), this comic western fable took the opposite approach to director Sam Peckinpah's continuing examination of the end of the West. Left for dead by a couple of lizard-slaughtering desperados in the middle of the desert, prospector Cable Hogue (Jason Robards) is saved by his unexpected discovery of water "where there wasn't any." Hogue turns the water hole, felicitously located near a stagecoach route, into a thriving business, creating a rest stop ... Full Synopsis
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Brendon Hanley, AMG Review
The Ballad of Cable Hogue seems an uncharacteristic movie for Sam Peckinpah, one of the masters of screen violence. In fact, the timing of this likable fable is remarkable, sandwiched between Peckinpah's two most disturbing examinations of violent human frenzy, The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs. Not that Cable Hogue is exactly a walk in the flower garden: it features back-stabbing, murder, prostitution, ... Full Review
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