Cable Hogue says … “Do unto others … as you would have others do unto you.”
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and makes money off the stagecoach passengers. Hildy, a prostitute from the nearest town, moves in with him. Hogue has everything going his way until the advent of the automobile ends the era of the stagecoach.
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Nostalgic, classical in form, contemplative and effortless.
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- John Chardon TMDB · May 201710/10
Peckinpah's lyrical vision of the West provides humour and comfort to director and viewer alike. The Ballad Of Cable Hogue sees Sam Peckinpah in jolly form. There is nothing here to trouble the censors, a bit of violence here and there - and some nasty human traits seam through the story, but this is purely a funny and touching movie that again deals with a Peckinpah fave theme of the Old West passing. Only difference is here he has his tongue firmly in cheek as he observes the thirst for finance sweeping across the country. Cable Hogue is a prospector left for dead in the desert by his two double-crossing partners Bowen & Taggart. Wandering across the desert talking to god, Hogue collapses during a sandstorm and finds mud on his boot, after digging down for a while he finds the miracle of water (though Hogue badly misspells this on his advertisement). An encounter with preacher Joshua convinces Hogue to go patent his spring and make a killing selling water to the passing stagecoach trail that runs by his newly found oasis. After striking a deal in the town of Dead Dog, Hogue is set up nicely while into the bargain he falls for gorgeous prostitute Hildy. The film cheekily (just lik
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Cast
- Jason RobardsCable Hogue
- Stella StevensHildy
- Slim PickensBen Fairchild
- David WarnerJoshua
- L.Q. JonesTaggart
- Strother MartinBowen
- R.G. ArmstrongQuittner
- Peter WhitneyCushing
- Gene EvansClete
- William MimsJensen
Crew
- Sam PeckinpahDirector
- Gordon T. DawsonWriter
- Edmund PenneyWriter
- John CrawfordWriter
- Lucien BallardDirector of Photography
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
- Lou LombardoEditor
- Frank SantilloEditor
- Sam PeckinpahProducer
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