The read
Critics rate it 22 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 90% of the 639 1970s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes94%
Critics rate it 22 points higher than audiences do.
230 audience votes
Key crew
- Sam PeckinpahDirector
- John CrawfordWriter
- Edmund PenneyWriter
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
- Gordon T. DawsonWriter
Cast
- Jason RobardsCable Hogue
- Stella StevensHildy
- Slim PickensBen Fairchild
- David WarnerJoshua
- L.Q. JonesTaggart
- Strother MartinBowen
- R.G. ArmstrongQuittner
- Peter WhitneyCushing
- Gene EvansClete
- William MimsJensen
- Susan O'ConnellClaudia
- Vaughn TaylorPowell
Stills
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Themes
prostitutehomeless persondesertstagecoachprospectorreverendway stationrattlesnake
The Best Movies of 1970
The Ballad of Cable Hogue is #13 of 60
