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 NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Sam Peckinpah NERFINISHED
distributor Warner Bros. Pictures
surface form: Warner Bros.
editedBy Paul Seydor NERFINISHED
featuresCharacter Hildy NERFINISHED
Joshua Duncan Sloane NERFINISHED
followsInCareerAfter The Wild Bunch NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
musicBy Jerry Goldsmith NERFINISHED
originalLanguage English
partOfFilmographyOf Sam Peckinpah NERFINISHED
plotSummary A desert-stranded prospector discovers a water source and builds a way station for travelers
producer Phil Feldman NERFINISHED
productionCompany Phil Feldman Productions NERFINISHED
releaseDecade 1970s
releaseYear 1970
runtimeMinutes 121
screenwriter Edmund Penney NERFINISHED
John Crawford NERFINISHED
setting American Old West NERFINISHED
desert
starring David Warner NERFINISHED
Jason Robards NERFINISHED
L.Q. Jones NERFINISHED
R.G. Armstrong NERFINISHED
Slim Pickens NERFINISHED
Stella Stevens NERFINISHED
Strother Martin NERFINISHED
storyBy John Crawford NERFINISHED
tone elegiac
offbeat humor

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Sam Peckinpah directed The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Lucien Ballard workedOn The Ballad of Cable Hogue