The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
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Reviews Counted: 14
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 1
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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
May 13, 1970 Wide
Jan 10, 2006
Warner Bros. Pictures
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Cast
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Jason Robards
Cable Hogue -
Stella Stevens
Hildy -
David Warner
Joshua -
Strother Martin
Bowen -
Slim Pickens
Ben -
L.Q. Jones
Taggart -
Peter Whitney
Cushing -
R.G. Armstrong
Quittner -
Gene Evans
Clete -
William Mims
Jensen -
Kathleen Freeman
Mrs. Jensen -
Susan O'Connell
Claudia -
Vaughan Taylor
Powell -
Max Evans
Webb -
James Anderson
Preacher -
Felix Nelson
William -
Victor Izay
Stage Office Clerk -
Darwin Lamb
The Stranger -
Mary Munday
Dot -
Matthew Peckinpah
Matthew
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All Critics (16) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (1) | DVD (6)
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.
Top CriticPeckinpah's gentlest, boldest, and perhaps most likable film to date.
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.
Appealing gentle Western comedy.
Robards' warm performance makes the film into a casual delight.
The calm between Peckinpah's tempests
Not a hit at the box office, it remains one of his finest efforts, funny, touching and never mawkishly sentimental.
A funky and appealing Western parable directed by Sam Peckinpah.
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.
Jason Robards shines in one of his most touching and humorous performances, and David Warner is memorable as a sinning preacher man.
Audience Reviews for The Ballad of Cable Hogue
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A reconsideration, with some SPOILERS:
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Maybe we're deliberately left with handful of unsatisfying suggestions about what he might represent in history. "He was a man," I think the Preacher says solemnly -- emptily???
The movie basks in our feeling for this guy, who is between worlds that won't fully have him -- since he is his own man, by choice. It's sad to watch that feeling contrast with the quickness of each character's mourning for him at the end. ??"He was a man" ... Maybe this movie ends up being about loneliness as our sacrifice in living out American ideals. Cable makes that sacrifice more honorably than most of us would even aspire to, without any regrets.
Super Reviewer
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- Joshua: Funny thing... it doesn't matter how much or how little you've wandered around...how many women you've been with. Every once in awhile, one of them cuts right through. Right straight into you.
- Cable Hogue: What do you do about it?
- Joshua: I suppose maybe when you die you get over it.
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Foreign Titles
- Abgerechnet wird zum Schluß (DE)
- Un nommé Cable Hogue (FR)
