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Watch: The Ballad of Cable Hogue 1970 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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 sex worker 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..
Plot: 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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	7.2/10 Votes: 9,804
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Reviews:

Butterfly mornin’s, and wild flower afternoons.
Extremely appealing fable from the celebrated director Sam Peckinpah, who works from an often poetic script by Edmund Penny and actor John Crawford. Here he and a very fine cast create some endearing characters worth getting to know. He also revisits the theme of the changing times in the American West (the story is set in 1908, and our characters marvel at the sight of a car). It crosses genres with ease – Western, drama, comedy – and even at 122 minutes, never feels padded out.

Jason Robards is excellent as the title character, betrayed by his lowlife associates, Bowen (Strother Martin), and Taggart (L.Q. Jones), and left to wander the desert on his own. Cable crosses the desert for days, almost certain to perish due to lack of water. Then, by miracle, Cable discovers an underground well of water. He travels to the nearest town to use his very meager funds to buy two acres in the area, and crafts what turns out to be a thriving way station in this desert wilderness. He also makes the acquaintance of wistful prostitute Hildy (Stella Stevens) and lustful preacher Joshua (David Warner).

Robards’s compelling performance anchors this saga, as Cable courts the vague hope that someday Bowen and Taggart will stop by his place for water and he can get some revenge. The gorgeous Stevens – who does some rather tasteful nudity for the picture – flourishes in one of her best ever roles as Hildy, too, yearns for something more out of life. Warner supplies quite a bit of lecherous comedy relief, as he can’t help helping himself to the ladies. This solid assemblage of actors also includes Slim Pickens, Peter Whitney, R.G. Armstrong, Gene Evans, Kathleen Freeman, and Vaughn Taylor.

Lovely, sun baked photography and a lush score by Jerry Goldsmith are other positive attributes to this poignant film, considered by some to be one of Peckinpahs’ finest efforts.

Eight out of 10.

“The Ballad of Cable Hogue” … the Old West couldn’t have a more beautiful swan song …..
Good ol’ Bloody Sam hid his softer side quite well, too well if you want my opinion, which might explain why “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” sank into oblivion somewhere lost between the popularity of “The Wild Bunch” and “Straw Dogs”. How pitiful, “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” would have probably helped to contradict Sam’s detractors, but no one remembers it. And this sad reality poetically fits the film …

Jason Robards plays the prospector Cable Hogue, whose bushy beard, raspy voice and sad looking eyes, embody the colorful heritage of the Old West. His odyssey starts when he’s double-crossed by his two associates and left alone and waterless in the desert. Hogue has no other choice than a long walking during which we’re transported by the beautiful ballad “Tomorrow is the Song I Sing”. Hogue’s tomorrow is uncertain, but not hopeless, he regularly addresses God with a touching but never blasphemous complicity and all the determination of a man, who doesn’t want to die, like the allegory of the agonizing Old West spirit. But after four exhausting days of walking, Hogue finally gives up and in an ironic twist, his abandon coincides with the providential discovery of a water hole in the middle of nowhere, right between the towns of Deaddog and Gilla. Hogue found something more valuable than gold, a stage stop in the desert.

What follows is a tribute to the American Dream : Hogue registers his two acres of precious land, gets a loan from a banker and a succession of very colorful characters assist him. Hogue develops a cordial relationship with two stagecoach drivers and a strange friendship with probably one of the most perversely amusing cinematic preachers you’ll ever see. David Warner as Reverend Joshua Sloan will provide some of the film’s funniest moments both in the slapstick and the one-liners department. Indeed, Sloan has a very personal way to choose his parishioners, his ‘sisters of the Spirit’ and purge “the grief” from “their soul” and release their “true spirit” … with his very tactful hands. But the heart of the film is the love story between Cable and Hildy, the prostitute, not the archetypal one with the heart of gold. The gold, she’s digging it, but not anywhere, in San Francisco where she plans to marry the richest man or the two richest men and become “the ladyest damn lady in town”. Stella Stevens is absolutely irresistible in this role, combining an exquisite femininity with a very strong personality.

I firmly believe the romantic story is responsible of the comedic tone of the film. It’s like Peckinpah decided to loosen up a bit and let all the fun repressed during the making of the more dramatic “Wild Bunch”. The movie provides fast motion, subliminal shots of Stella Stevens’ beautiful boobs that hardly keep us focused, the slapstick of a good old Benny Hill show and a sort of poetical wisecrack that provides some of the funniest Western lines : “Give me the rifle” “You’ll get what’s in it” Priceless! I used to believe that this film should be a more popular Western comedy than “Blazzing Saddles” but I finally got the point that the comedy was in fact comic relief as to hide the dramatic aspect of “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” which is, a tragic love story.

Hildy has a real fondness on Hogue, and their chemistry is absolutely appealing. The movie is punctuated by many beautiful songs, among them, “Butterfly Morning/ And Wild Morning Afternoons” which offers a tender, delicately handled moment. Robards was robbed an Oscar nom and Stella was stellar, and both exude a mysterious but sincerely endearing love. But there’s never a reason in love, it just happens, as says Sloan, there’s always one girl who “cuts right straight into you”.

But Hogue is a practical man, incapable of showing his romantic side every time, haunted by the desire to take his revenge on the guys who betrayed him. Hogue deliberately (or maybe not) ruins what could have been a long-lasting idyll by a remark that hurt Hildy’s feelings, telling he didn’t charge her the location, because she didn’t charge him in bed. At that moment, Hildy’s heart is devastated as she realizes that it’s time to leave him.

The tragedy of “The Ballad of Cable Hogue”‘s romance is the impossible love between the hooker who wants to discover San Francisco and the old prospector who hates the town and manages his honest business in the desert. Hogue is someone in the desert, and doesn’t have his place in civilization. And the end of the West is incarnated by the automobile era : when the first one appears, Strother Martin’s character says he saw one of them … and so we did, in a movie named “The Wild Bunch”. Hogue, like Pyke, embodies the Old West myth and it’s no coincidence that he was killed by the ominous arrival of cars. Civilization finally met the Old West.

Hogue dies surrounded by all the protagonists of his life, including Hildy, as a rich widow from San Francisco with a dress so green, she’s like a beautiful oasis in the desert, indeed, she became the “ladyest damn lady in town”. What a poetic ending for a man who would have the honor to hear his own eulogy … And what a powerful significance to the film, probably the only one which ‘stars characters actors’ from Jason Robards, to Stella Stevens, Strother Martin, L.Q Jones, Slim Pickens, the “Ballad of Cable Hogue” is the delightful swan song of an era, a last tribute to a movie genre.

And I join myself to honor Cable Hogue, the unsung hero of ‘New Hollywood’ and ‘Cable Hogue’ whose tenderness is like the link between the thrills of ‘The Wild Bunch’ and the passion between ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’, this is the Holy Trinity of the ‘New Western’ genre. Amen.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 1 min (121 min)
Budget 3716946
Revenue 5000000
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director Sam Peckinpah
Writer John Crawford, Edmund Penney, Gordon T. Dawson
Actors Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner
Country United States
Awards 1 win & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm