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Actors: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin, Slim Pickens, L.Q. Jones
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Ballad of Cable Hogue |
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THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE was produced and directed by Sam Peckinpah in 1970.
Cable Hogue has just been robbed and abandoned, without water, in the Nevada desert by his partners Taggart and Bowen. Four days later, on the verge of dying of thirst, Hogue discovers a spring right next to a stagecoach track. As the spring is located more than 20 miles away from the nearest town, Cable Hogue decides to buy these two acres of land and to start to sell water to the stagecoach passengers. Hogue's secret hope is that Taggart and Bowen will stop by him one day and that he could then take revenge on them.
Cable Hogue will be helped in his business by the local banker, by Joshua Douglas Sloan, a preacher more interested in women than in sermons, and above all by Hildy, a prostitute who comes to live with him when she's expelled from the town. Cable and Hildy are happy for a while but Hildy decides then to go to San Francisco to make a fortune while Hogue is still waiting for his revenge. A few months later, Taggart and Bowen finally reappear and Cable Hogue is more than ready to take revenge on them.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Ballad of Cable Hogue |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1900-1920's
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- main character serviced by a prostitute
Vigilante/Revenge?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- small businessman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) long girliemon hair
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- missing body parts/abilities
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
Desert?
Yes
Desert:
- dying of thirst, sunburn
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Country/Western
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