Ballad of Cable Hogue
(1970)

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Key Cast: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin, Slim Pickens

Rating: R

Genre(s): Western, Romance, Comedy

Film Type: Color

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Cable Hogue"
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"The Ballad of Cable Hogue" stars Jason Robards and Stella Stevens.

Famed director Sam Peckinpah directed this western classic.


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Funny, Romantic, Sentimental.

“The Ballad of Cable Hogue” is a light-hearted look at the life of a fictional character named Cable Hogue (played by Jason Robards).

When his partners beat him up and leave him to die in the desert, it looks like the end for Cable Hogue.  But through a stroke of good luck, it isn’t.  While wandering in the desert, Cable Hogue finds water that saves his life.  It also turns out that the water well is right on the stagecoach line.

Cable Hogue gets the rights to the well and sets up shop.  Now he waits for his two ex-partners to come back through town. He knows that one day they will return to the area and he intends to get his revenge.

In the meantime, Cable Hogue takes up with town prostitute Hildy (Stella Stevens). As he waits, the West as he knows it, is slowing changing around him.

Directed by famed western movie director, Sam Peckinpah, “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” is reputed to be one of Sam Peckinpah's own favorites.
 

Interesting Facts


•  “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” is reportedly one of  director Sam Peckinpah’s favorite films.  Because Sam Peckinpah went $19 million over budget and took longer than expected time to finish “The Ballad of Cable Hogue,” Warner Brothers did not do any more movies with him.

• Director Sam Peckinpah is well-known for his more violent Western films like “The Wild Bunch,” but “The Ballad of Cable Hogue”  has a light-hearted tone.

•  Sam Peckinpah, also directed these other famous western movies:

  • The Wild Bunch
  • Ride the High Country
  • Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

• Strother Martin (Bowen) and L.Q. Jones (Taggert)  play similar roles in this movie as they did in “The Wild Bunch.”  The reason is because Sam Peckinpah began shooting “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” almost immediately after filming “The Wild Bunch” and decided to use these same two actors again in similar roles.

• Many critics refer to “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” as a “Death of the West” film because it shows the transition from the old west to modernization.

• “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” was filmed in Arizona and Nevada.
 

"Ballad of Cable Hogue" Movie DVD


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The "Ballad of Cable Hogue" stars Jason Robards
and Stella Stevens. The movie was directed by
famed director Sam Peckinpah.

Light-hearted and sentimental, this movie is
about a man named Cable Hogue who finds
water in the middle of the desert and then
sets up a stopping post along the stagecoach
line. As he waits to get revenge against his
ex-partners, he falls in love with the town
prostitute named Hildy. Meanwhile, the West
is starting to slowly change around him.

 
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for purchase details.