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The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Comedy, Romance, Western
Release Date:May 13, 1970
Running time:121 minutes
Cast:Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin, LQ Jones
Director:Sam Peckinpah
Producer:Sam Peckinpah
Writer:John Crawford/Edmund Penney
Distributor:Warner Bros. Pictures

Description: Cable Hogue is left to die in the dessert. After days of wandering the dunes he collapses from dehydration and heat-exhastion. He notices some mud on his boot however and manages to uncover a mudhole turn it into a life-saving puddle. Eventually he sets up rest stop here and sells water and provisions to travellers and prospers. He takes in a young woman into his dessert home named Hildy who was expelled from Gila for lowering the morals of the town.

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