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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
All Critics (15) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (12) | 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.
Peckinpah'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.
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.
Peckinpah buries his favorite genre with the help of an outstanding trio: Jason Robards as an outlaw with strict moral codes, Stella Stevens as a town whore with too much heart, and David Warner as a preacher full of lust. This isn't by any means a languid, morose funeral; but a festive farewell to a time and place
October 22, 2007Super Reviewer
The heart of this movie, which make the rest of it come alive -- zigzagging dissolves and all -- is Robards' and Stevens' performances and some of Lucien Ballard's shots, mostly cloudscapes he catches behind the characters. I don't know whether Peckinpah had to direct this, and I don't mean because of the low level of
January 21, 2011Super Reviewer
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