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SYNOPSIS:It's 1908. The West has chnged. Grizzled frontiersma Cable Hogue (Jason Robards) hasn't. Despite the fortune he's made selling water to thirsty desert travelers, he lies in wait. Someday two no-account desert rats - who ago robbed Hogue and left him to die in the baking Arizona sand - will drop by for a drink.
After the violence of "The Wild Bunch", director Sam Peckinpah shifted moods with this memorable fable, less a tale of revenge than it is a lyrical, touching tribute to the last days of the West's pioneering spirit. Stella Stevens and David Warner lead an excellent supporting cast that also includes L.Q. Jones and Strother Martin as Hogue's old enemies.
ABOUT THE DVD: The film is presented in COLOUR and in WIDESCREEN format (1.78:1 ratio) and runs for a total of 116 minutes. AUDIO languages on the disc are the original ENGLISH along with dubbed French and Italian audiotracks - SUBTITLES on the disc are in English, French, Italian, Dutch, Arabic and Bulgarian (there are also English and Italian subtitles for the hard-of-hearing too) - SPECIAL FEATURES include a commentary by Sam Peckinpah's biograpers - a new featurette 'The Ladiest Damn'd Lady: An Afternoon With Actress Stella Stevens' and a Same Peckinpah trailer gallery.
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44 of 46 people found the following review helpful
By D. Sablic
Format:DVD
...it's great; best western movies ever, from director Sam Peckinpah in one box. Includes: 2 Disc Special Editions of "The Wild Bunch" and "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid"( which has two versions) and single disc editions of "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" and "Ride the High Country." Box set is filled with good extras ( such as documentaries, featurettes, trailers and audio commentaries for each movie); there is something on each disc to explore. Buy!!!!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Mr. C. Plail
Format:DVD
I first saw this western on the TV several years ago and since then I have been trying to find a copy. It's a slighty off beat western with both humour and pathos. The song "Butterfly Morning" sung by Stella Stevens and Jason Robards togeter with the film images that accompany it can only be described as beautiful.
Jason Robards performace is outstanding portraying the character with both charm and honesty, Stella Stevens is bewitching as the whore with a heart, David Hemmings as the randy preacher is superb. In fact all the casting is outstanding.
Buy it and I'm sure like me you'll watch it over and over again.
Jason Robards performace is outstanding portraying the character with both charm and honesty, Stella Stevens is bewitching as the whore with a heart, David Hemmings as the randy preacher is superb. In fact all the casting is outstanding.
Buy it and I'm sure like me you'll watch it over and over again.
43 of 47 people found the following review helpful
By S. Riley
Format:DVD
Wow this is a great price for some of the best Westerns made, Sam Peckinpah was a geat Director & this Boxset is Proof of that, Ride The High Country is 1 of the best Old Westerns with 2 great turns form Scott & McCrea. The Wild Bunch, so much as been said about film dont know what to say, just the BEST Western ever! The Ballard Of Cable Hogue is lovely little unseen {shame} film with a nice little turn from Jason Robards and a change of mood for Peckinpah. Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid is James Coburns best film & a real Gem for fans, with the 2 versions of the film, the new 1 with the missing Garrett/wife home scene & a few cuts here & there, Im still very glad that you have the Turner Preview as well, i think its just a little better. All in all NO Western fan should be without this Set
Sam
Sam
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By Jason Parkes
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I was pleased when The Ballad of Cable Hogue was reissued, having only read about in it in If They Move Kill 'Em & John Cale's song Cable Hogue. As with some Peckinpah films (most notably Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia) it has been rarely shown on TV and had been impossible to locate on VHS.
It is quite odd and comic compared to Pecknipah's more famous The Wild Bunch and certainly has an oddball, abusurd element that featured to a lesser degree in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. Jason Robards is excellent in the lead role, his grizzled Cable Hogue not unrelated to the character he portrayed in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (something to do with death?). It is quite odd and almost Beckettian in parts, while there are homoerotic elements unusual to the Western genre. It does feel of it's time, largely to the split-screen shots- which are very of its time and place it next to films like The Thomas Crown Affair, Head, Valley of the Dolls & The Boston Strangler.
Great that this is available again, and at budget price- this film is well placed in Peckinpah's genre and has a lot more emotional feeling than later films (such as the over-rated Straw Dogs or the messy Osterman Weekend). A curio maybe, but a film that aids the critical reassessment of Peckinpah's oeuvre.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By S J Buck
TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
Although Cross of Iron is my favourite Peckinpah movie none of these disappoint. From Ride the High Country through to Pat Garrett and Bily the Kid Peckinpah stamps his own distinctive mark on the western genre.
The themes that runs through Ride the High Country are present in The Wild Bunch and for that matter in Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia as well. Take the classic wedding sequence in RTHC. Elsa has runaway to spite her father and commits to marrying Billy Hammond. Hammond it turns out is one five brothers who are borderline nutcases, reminding me vaguely of a 'Hills have Eyes' like group. So a squalid group of brothers whose attitude to women is, well, backward. Elsa is torn between backing out of the wedding, because she realises the nature of the men, but she is either too scared or still wants to spite her father. This theme of squalidness is ever an present theme in Peckinpahs movies. Fortunately for Elsa there is another way out.
The Wild Bunch takes another theme used in RTHK; that of aging cowboys who want to make one last stand for what they believe to be right in the dying west. There are some marvellous set pieces in this film, noteably two epic gunfights. The boxed set has two editions of the film, both of which attempt to restore the film to Peckinpah's original vision. This is a film which improves with every viewing.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and The Ballad of Cable Hogue are both quality films as well. Only time prevents me from writing another couple of paragraphs on these as well.
Overall a great boxed set, with many interesting extras as well.
The themes that runs through Ride the High Country are present in The Wild Bunch and for that matter in Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia as well. Take the classic wedding sequence in RTHC. Elsa has runaway to spite her father and commits to marrying Billy Hammond. Hammond it turns out is one five brothers who are borderline nutcases, reminding me vaguely of a 'Hills have Eyes' like group. So a squalid group of brothers whose attitude to women is, well, backward. Elsa is torn between backing out of the wedding, because she realises the nature of the men, but she is either too scared or still wants to spite her father. This theme of squalidness is ever an present theme in Peckinpahs movies. Fortunately for Elsa there is another way out.
The Wild Bunch takes another theme used in RTHK; that of aging cowboys who want to make one last stand for what they believe to be right in the dying west. There are some marvellous set pieces in this film, noteably two epic gunfights. The boxed set has two editions of the film, both of which attempt to restore the film to Peckinpah's original vision. This is a film which improves with every viewing.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and The Ballad of Cable Hogue are both quality films as well. Only time prevents me from writing another couple of paragraphs on these as well.
Overall a great boxed set, with many interesting extras as well.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Directed by Sam Peckinpah, The Ballad of Cable Hogue is a brilliant little gem of a movie that somehow never made it onto the national radar screen when it was released. A major departure for Peckinpah, whose forte back then was the ultra violent epic-movies like The Wild Bunch and the highly acclaimed Straw Dogs-The Ballad of Cable Hoague tells the tail of a fellow abandoned for dead out in the western desert who is lucky enough to find the equivalent of an oasis and converts the spot into a way station for the pony express and the stage coach runs of the time. Wonderfully acted by Robards as Hoague and Stella Stevens as the nearby town's "working girl" as his romantic interest, the story is in essence a depiction of western life and the characters of the time.
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The Ballard of Cable Hogue
We enjoyed this film - I am very fond of Westerns and this kept my interest all the way through. I don't know why it did not have a bigger release when first made.
Published 2 months ago by Mr. M. Henderson
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brilliant
an old time movie with a geat cast doing wonderfull things with a simple and endearing story.
reccomended viewing for anyone fed up with todays blood and guts,CGI and graphic... Read more
reccomended viewing for anyone fed up with todays blood and guts,CGI and graphic... Read more
Published 4 months ago by colin waters
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Disappointing
A good western requires a a good plot, plausible characters, a certain amount of suspense, and a restraint in the use of bullets and blood. Read more
Published 5 months ago by L. Colletter Gael Ric
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remember it from ages gone,
mose of these films have not dated,but with all the wild open spaces going, its nice to watch a western that still looks big,
Published 5 months ago by Allan
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More Westerns
Another western for my husband to keep him amused and out of mischief - but only just! I've yet to see it.
Published 6 months ago by Heather Oliver
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The sky in the west
When I was emerging from my teens, one of the films that caught my imagination was The Ballad of Cable Hogue, a less than serious western starring Jason Robards - whose films I... Read more
Published 8 months ago by GlynLuke
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BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE
Just a brilliant film that hooks you from the first minute, first saw it many years ago, now got it on DVD and just as good Jason Robbards and Stella Stevens are perfectly cast... Read more
Published 10 months ago by J. E. Ashe
4.0 out of 5 stars
Peckinpah's lyrical vision of the West provides humour and comfort to...
The Ballad Of Cable Hogue sees Sam Peckinpah in jolly form. There is nothing here to trouble the censors, a bit of violence here and there-and some nasty human traits seam thru the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Spike Owen
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Try It Again, Sam
I have to disagree with the other reviews here but there's no way this is worth more than three stars. Read more
Published 12 months ago by lawrence_of_london
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cable Hogue says..."Do unto others... as you would have others do unto...
.When people mention Sam Peckinpah, the film most mentioned is The Wild Bunch. While I'm a big fan of that very violent film, I find out that most people don't even know about The... Read more
Published 14 months ago by S. F. husseiny
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