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The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

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Reviews Counted: 11 Fresh: 10  Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7/10

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Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins

Synopsis: This charming comic western features a winning performance by star Jason Robards as prospector Calble Hogue. Double-crossed and left for dead in the desert, Hogue recovers to find the only well for miles. Soon Hogue's turned the place into a thriving oasis and eventually his treacherous... This charming comic western features a winning performance by star Jason Robards as prospector Calble Hogue. Double-crossed and left for dead in the desert, Hogue recovers to find the only well for miles. Soon Hogue's turned the place into a thriving oasis and eventually his treacherous partners return so Hogue can have the revenge he hankers. An unusual but winning offering from the notoriously violent Peckinpah. [More]

Genre: Westerns

Starring: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones

Director: Sam Peckinpah
Producer: Sam Peckinpah
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Producer: Phil Feldman, William D. Faralla

DVD Info

Release:

Jan 10, 2006

[DVD Details]
  • Ballad of Cable Hogue, The
  • Sam Peckinpah's light-hearted, rambunctious ode to the dying Wild West, with Jason Robards as a rascally prospector who transforms a desert water-hole into big business.
  • Year: 1970
  • Director: Sam Peckinpah
  • Starring: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner
  • Source: Warner Home Video
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    3.5/4

    Not a hit at the box office, it remains one of his finest efforts, funny, touching and never mawkishly sentimental.

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    08/30/06
    TV Guide's Movie Guide
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    3/5

    A funky and appealing Western parable directed by Sam Peckinpah.

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    02/08/06
    Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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    01/26/06
    Time Out
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    4/5

    Peckinpah shows atypical humor and sense of music too in this original and lyrical comedy-Western-musical, with Jason Robards in top form as one of the director's most sympathetic character.

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    05/13/05
    Philip Martin
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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    3.5/4

    A fine movie, a wonderfully comic tale we didn't quite expect from a director who seems more at home with violence than with humor.

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    10/23/04
    Roger Ebert
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    Robin Clifford
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    01/24/04
    Spence D.
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    08/21/03
    John Esther
    Pasadena Weekly
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    05/24/03
    Channel 4 Film
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    4.5/5

    Peckinpah's gentlest, boldest, and perhaps most likable film to date.

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    05/21/03
    Roger Greenspun
    New York Times
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    Jason Robards shines in one of his most touching and humorous performances, and David Warner is memorable as a sinning preacher man.

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    03/10/03
    Marjorie Baumgarten
    Austin Chronicle
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    Sam Peckinpah followed The Wild Bunch with this intimate, eccentric, appealing 1970 comedy, which treats many of the same themes in a soft, regretful mode.

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    Dave Kehr
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