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The Ballad of Cable Hogue

1970

Sam Peckinpah

Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, L.Q. Jones ...

7.3

5,859

Western Penniless Arizona bum Cable Hogue (Jason Robards Jr.) is dry-gulched and left to die by false friends Bowen and Taggart (Strother Martin and L.Q. Jones). In a miraculous bit of luck he stumbles upon a water well located at the perfect midpoint between two stagecoach stops. Cable gets his paperwork in order and sets up a sharp little trimming station selling cheap meals and "watle": Cable can't spell. His only friend is the frontier ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"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."	POS
United States	Roger Greenspun The New York Times	"Peckinpah's gentlest, boldest, and perhaps most likable film to date."	POS
United States	Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle	"Jason Robards shines in one of his most touching and humorous performances,2 and David Warner is memorable as a sinning preacher man."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Tribune	"Sam Peckinpah followed The Wild Bunch with this intimate, eccentric, appealing 1970 comedy"	POS

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