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The Ballad of Cable Hogue

( Catalog Number 11298 )
(1.33:1) (3 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

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The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970 - 122 min. - Color
Genre: Western

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
This charming comic western features a winning performance by star Jason Robards as prospector Calble Hogue. Double-crossed and left for dead in the desert, Hogue recovers to find the only well for miles. Soon Hogue's turned the place into a thriving oasis and eventually his treacherous partners return so Hogue can have the revenge he hankers. An unusual but winning offering from the notoriously violent Peckinpah.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
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 stop for a never-ending series of parched travelers. On his occasional trips to the closest town, he meets chipper prostitute Hildy (Stella Stevens), who joins him in his oasis, completing Hogue's little paradise. But even though Hogue may be able to succeed and avenge himself against his original attackers, there is one thing that he cannot stop: progress. Completed before The Wild Bunch was released, and replete with comical and even musical interludes, Peckinpah's gently picaresque telling of Hogue's rise and fall stands in distinct contrast to the visual violence of its predecessor. The underlying message about the cost of modernity, however, equals The Wild Bunch in seriousness. The callous randomness of Hogue's fate is as shocking as the Bunch's final blaze of glory; as in Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller from the same period, a tool of "civilization" provokes a most uncivilized end for an Old West dreamer. Although the film was as light-hearted in approach as the 1969 smash hit revisionist western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Warner Bros. mishandled the release and it did barely any business; Peckinpah returned to his trademark gore in his next film, the controversial Straw Dogs (1971). Still, The Ballad of Cable Hogue is less an anomaly for a master of violence than an ironically charming chapter in Peckinpah's career-long elegy to the western. --- Lucia Bozzola

The Ballad of Cable Hogue seems an uncharacteristic movie for Sam Peckinpah, one of the masters of screen violence. In fact, the timing of this likable fable is remarkable, sandwiched between Peckinpah's two most disturbing examinations of violent human frenzy, The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs. Not that Cable Hogue is exactly a walk in the flower garden: it features back-stabbing, murder, prostitution, greed, and a crooked preacher. But, as with Junior Bonner two years later, there is no denying the warm-hearted nature of this outing. In fact, for someone who had supposedly buried the revisionist western the year before with The Wild Bunch, Peckinpah keeps things nice and light, even in the darkest moments. Visual jokes and even slapstick are not out of bounds here. A lot of credit for keeping the balance of this tone must go to Jason Robards as Cable, who always has a surly, jocular look on his face. David Warner, Peckinpah staple and one of the most underrated actors of the Seventies, is also superbly waggish as the devilish man of God, Joshua Sloane. --- Brendon Hanley

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Cast for The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Jason Robards, Jr. - 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
Matthew Peckinpah - Matthew
Mary Munday - Dot

Crew for The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Sam Peckinpah - Director / Producer
William Faralla - Producer
Phil Feldman - Producer
John Crawford - Screenwriter
Edmund Penney - Screenwriter
Lucien Ballard - Cinematographer
Richard Gillis - Songwriter / Composer (Music Score)
Jerry Goldsmith - Songwriter / Composer (Music Score)
Lou Lombardo - Editor
Frank Santillo - Editor
Leroy Coleman - Art Director
Jack Mills - Set Designer
Robert Fletcher - Costume Designer

Feature Details

Title: The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Feature Release Date: 1970
Genre: Western
Color: Color
Runtime: 122 Minutes
Picture: Pan & Scan
Ratio: 1.33:1
Playback Format: CLV

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Catalog Number: 11298
UPC: 085391129868
ISBN: none
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Publisher: Warner Home Video

Sides: 3
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: 11298-N
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue

( Catalog Number 11298 )
(1.33:1) (3 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

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Best Version on LaserDisc
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970 - 122 min. - Color
Genre: Western

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
This charming comic western features a winning performance by star Jason Robards as prospector Calble Hogue. Double-crossed and left for dead in the desert, Hogue recovers to find the only well for miles. Soon Hogue's turned the place into a thriving oasis and eventually his treacherous partners return so Hogue can have the revenge he hankers. An unusual but winning offering from the notoriously violent Peckinpah.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
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 stop for a never-ending series of parched travelers. On his occasional trips to the closest town, he meets chipper prostitute Hildy (Stella Stevens), who joins him in his oasis, completing Hogue's little paradise. But even though Hogue may be able to succeed and avenge himself against his original attackers, there is one thing that he cannot stop: progress. Completed before The Wild Bunch was released, and replete with comical and even musical interludes, Peckinpah's gently picaresque telling of Hogue's rise and fall stands in distinct contrast to the visual violence of its predecessor. The underlying message about the cost of modernity, however, equals The Wild Bunch in seriousness. The callous randomness of Hogue's fate is as shocking as the Bunch's final blaze of glory; as in Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller from the same period, a tool of "civilization" provokes a most uncivilized end for an Old West dreamer. Although the film was as light-hearted in approach as the 1969 smash hit revisionist western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Warner Bros. mishandled the release and it did barely any business; Peckinpah returned to his trademark gore in his next film, the controversial Straw Dogs (1971). Still, The Ballad of Cable Hogue is less an anomaly for a master of violence than an ironically charming chapter in Peckinpah's career-long elegy to the western. --- Lucia Bozzola

The Ballad of Cable Hogue seems an uncharacteristic movie for Sam Peckinpah, one of the masters of screen violence. In fact, the timing of this likable fable is remarkable, sandwiched between Peckinpah's two most disturbing examinations of violent human frenzy, The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs. Not that Cable Hogue is exactly a walk in the flower garden: it features back-stabbing, murder, prostitution, greed, and a crooked preacher. But, as with Junior Bonner two years later, there is no denying the warm-hearted nature of this outing. In fact, for someone who had supposedly buried the revisionist western the year before with The Wild Bunch, Peckinpah keeps things nice and light, even in the darkest moments. Visual jokes and even slapstick are not out of bounds here. A lot of credit for keeping the balance of this tone must go to Jason Robards as Cable, who always has a surly, jocular look on his face. David Warner, Peckinpah staple and one of the most underrated actors of the Seventies, is also superbly waggish as the devilish man of God, Joshua Sloane. --- Brendon Hanley

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Cast for The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Jason Robards, Jr. - 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
Matthew Peckinpah - Matthew
Mary Munday - Dot

Crew for The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Sam Peckinpah - Director / Producer
William Faralla - Producer
Phil Feldman - Producer
John Crawford - Screenwriter
Edmund Penney - Screenwriter
Lucien Ballard - Cinematographer
Richard Gillis - Songwriter / Composer (Music Score)
Jerry Goldsmith - Songwriter / Composer (Music Score)
Lou Lombardo - Editor
Frank Santillo - Editor
Leroy Coleman - Art Director
Jack Mills - Set Designer
Robert Fletcher - Costume Designer

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