The Ballad of Cable Hogue

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The Ballad of Cable Hogue is a 1970 Western comedy-drama film that blends offbeat humor and elegiac themes in telling the story of a desert-stranded prospector who builds a way station around a discovered water source.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Western film
film
cinematographyBy Lucien Ballard
countryOfOrigin United States
director Sam Peckinpah
distributor Warner Bros.
editedBy Paul Seydor
featuresCharacter Hildy
Joshua Duncan Sloane
followsInCareerAfter The Wild Bunch
genre Western
comedy
drama
hasFormat feature film
hasPosterTagline "Cable Hogue says: You can search all you want for gold, but there’s no gold like what I’ve got."
hasTheme change and obsolescence
entrepreneurship
friendship
modernization encroaching on the Old West
romance
survival
mainCharacter Cable Hogue
musicBy Jerry Goldsmith
originalLanguage English
partOfFilmographyOf Sam Peckinpah
plotSummary A desert-stranded prospector discovers a water source and builds a way station for travelers
producer Phil Feldman
productionCompany Phil Feldman Productions
releaseDecade 1970s
releaseYear 1970
runtimeMinutes 121
screenwriter Edmund Penney
John Crawford
setting American Old West
linked to: Old West

desert
starring David Warner
Jason Robards
L.Q. Jones
linked to: L. Q. Jones

R.G. Armstrong
linked to: R. G. Armstrong

Slim Pickens
Stella Stevens
Strother Martin
storyBy John Crawford
tone elegiac
offbeat humor

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Sam Peckinpah directed The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Lucien Ballard workedOn The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Stella Stevens notableWork The Ballad of Cable Hogue
L. Q. Jones notableWork The Ballad of Cable Hogue
L. Q. Jones appearedIn The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Gene Evans notableWork The Ballad of Cable Hogue
David Hattersley Warner notableWork The Ballad of Cable Hogue