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| French poster for Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue |
QUICK REVIEW:
Typical Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch (1969)) story about a man, who is left to die in the dessert, until he finds water after a few days, buys the land and falls in love with a good whore. His partner is a horny priest.
Jason Robards (All the President's Men (1976)) is good as the doughty, simple man Hogue. I found myself dreaming myself away, despite, - or perhaps because, - Cable Hogue is a film where not much happens.
The film uses many foolish effects like 4-split screen, fast forwards, a comical motif and animation, which gives it an almost psychedelic feel as an untraditional romantic western-comedy, (and very typical of its time.) These effects are also a reason for its inclusion in the unflatteringly named 'Death of the West'-wave of westerns from the 60s and 70s.
The production was troubled: Taking a far step away from his preceding hit The Wild Bunch, which is a fiercely violent western, Peckinpah shot Cable Hogue with weather difficulties and severe drinking in Nevada and Arizona, going 19 days and 3 mil. $ over budget, with terrible stories of mass-firings and an alcoholic's lack of control attributed to him, Peckinpah was left by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts after the film and lost prestigious future directing jobs due to his wild ways on The Ballad of Cable Hogue.
The Ballad of Cable Hogue by Sam Peckinpah; a film that, like most of his films, will mostly appeal to men
Irreverence and male jargon spells fun in Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Budget: 3.7 mil. $
Box office: 5 mil. $
= Even
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