Jason Robards
Cable Hogue
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue is a 1970 American Technicolor Western comedy film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Jason Robards, Stella Stevens and David Warner. Set in the Arizona desert during a period when the frontier was closing, the film follows three years in the life of a failed prospector.
Mar 18, 1970 · The Ballad of Cable Hogue: Directed by Sam Peckinpah. With Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin. A hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Sam Peckinpah
- 1970-03-18
A New Western comedy about a prospector who becomes a motel owner and falls in love with a prostitute. Sam Peckinpah directs Jason Robards and Stella Stevens in a gritty and humorous tale of the West.
Cable Hogue (Jason Robards) is left alone to die in the unforgiving desert by two colleagues, only to find his fortune when he discovers water in an area where none was thought to...
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- Sam Peckinpah
- R
- Jason Robards
Sam Peckinpah's light-hearted, rambunctious ode to the dying Wild West, with Jason Robards as a rascally prospector who transforms a desert water-hole into big business. Year: 1970 Director: Sam ...
Find out who directed, wrote, produced, and starred in this Sam Peckinpah western film. See the full list of cast and crew members, including Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, and Jerry Goldsmith.
Like Peckinpah's Ride the High Country and The Wild Bunch, The Ballad of Cable Hogue is set at the turn of the 20th century and, like the protagonists of those movies, Cable becomes an oddball symbol for the passing of the Wild West.
