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The Ballad of Cable Hogue is a 1970 American Technicolor Western comedy film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Jason Robards, Stella Stevens and David Warner. Set in the Arizona desert during a period when the frontier was closing, the film follows three years in the life of a failed prospector.
Mar 18, 1970 · The Ballad of Cable Hogue: Directed by Sam Peckinpah. With Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin. A hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Sam Peckinpah
- 1970-03-18
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue manages to function perfectly on two distinct levels: first of all, its surface tells the story of a prospector who finds water in the desert, builds a successful business and falls in love with the local prostitute he decides to spend the rest of his life with.
Apr 4, 2020 · In Cable Hogue he sees the crafty, entrepreneurial spirit that drove his ancestors west to carve their own destiny out of the mountain. One of the first things Hogue builds at his new way station is a flagpole and runs the Stars & Stripes up proudly; he’s nothing if not American, loving his country both for what it stands for and ...
The Battle of Cable Hogue is a departure from Peckinpah’s repertoire of bloodshed and is instead an affectionate tribute to the fading old West which is represented by Cable Hogue (Jason Robards). By 1908 the old west has progressed, and frontiersman Hogue has managed to survive while maintaining his old ways.
Sep 11, 2017 · Director Sam Peckinpah followed his epic Westerns Major Dundee and The Wild Bunch with 1970's The Ballad of Cable Hogue, a chamber piece set in a rapidly changing Old West. The story charts the rise of a man literally from the dust, through the zigs and zags of fortune and love.
