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With: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin, Slim Pickens, L.Q. Jones, Peter Whitney, R.G. Armstrong, Gene Evans, William Mims, Kathleen Freeman, Susan O'Connell, Vaughn Taylor, Max Evans, James Anderson
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Written by: John Crawford, Edmund Penney
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Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
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MPAA Rating: R
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Running Time: 121
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Date: 13/05/1970
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
Water Sillies
By Jeffrey M. Anderson Buy The Ballad of Cable Hogue on DVD
Coming as it does just a year after The Wild Bunch, the silly comedy The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) is an oddity in the Sam Peckinpah canon. Jason Robards stars as a cowboy robbed and left for dead in the desert -- until he stumbles upon a water hole and turns entrepreneur, setting up a waystation for travelers stuck between two dirt-water towns. Hogue meets several odd characters, including a cute prostitute (Stella Stevens) and a randy preacher (David Warner), while waiting to take revenge. Slim Pickens co-stars as a stage driver. Like John Ford, Peckinpah prefers bawdy, rather obvious humor accompanied by dopey music; the "jokes" don't always work. But Robards' warm performance makes the film into a casual delight. The DVD includes an interview with Stella Stevens today, at age 69.
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