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The Ballad of Cable Hogue

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The Ballad of Cable Hogue	comment	The Ballad of Cable Hogue is a 1970 Western Dramedy directed by Sam Peckinpah.Cable Hogue (Jason Robards) is a desert-dwelling Hobo in the turn of the century Old West. As he hunts for his dinner, he's ambushed by Taggart (L.Q. Jones) and Bowen (Strother Martin), his former partners. They steal all his water and leave him for dead in the barren wasteland, mocking his situation as they ride away.Driven to desperation, Hogue digs up the desert sand and unexpectedly finds water. He then goes to a nearby town and secures the funding to build an outpost for a busy stagecoach line at the watering hole he now calls Cable Springs. He also strikes up friendships with sassy prostitute Hildy (Stella Stevens) and perverted preacher Joshua (David Warner).The stagecoach business is just a front, though. Hogue knows that one day Taggart and Bowen are bound to pass through. And when they do, there'll be hell to pay...
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Taggart saying "You ain't got the guts, Hogue." Those turn out to be his Last Words.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_27e9edc	type	Undercrank
The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_27e9edc	comment	Undercrank: Both Cable and Joshua have comedic scenes where they run like this. Coming from a director who usually specializes in Ludicrous Gibs, it's rather unbelievable to watch.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: About the only one of Peckinpahs films that can be called idealistic.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Cable had three years to plan revenge on Taggart and Bowen. When they show up, he manipulates them perfectly into a trap.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Snakes are a crucial part of Hogue's revenge scheme against Taggart (who seems especially fearful of them) and Bowen.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Hildy very much fits the archetype of this as a stock Western character, but she zig-zags it as well. She's the only one who shows any pity to Cable at the beginning, but also she also gets mad at him when decides to go back to the springs. She gets back together with him, but would rather go to San Francisco than stay with him in the desert.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: Joshua's just a low-level con man posing as a preacher (complete with rotating collar), and he's more Affably Evil than villainous.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself: Hildy says that when she goes to San Francisco she'll be "The ladiest damn lady you ever seen," and Cable repeats the line when she visits him.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_9cede50e	comment	Toplessness from the Back: Several nude shots of Hildy from the back. Helps that she's played by former Playmate of the Month Stella Stevens.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_c59bf35a	type	Ballad of X
The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_c59bf35a	comment	Ballad of X: The title signals that this film is meant more as a fable than a gritty, realistic Western.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: Cable Hogue does this to himself when wandering through the desert.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Many loving shots of Hildy's curves, as taken from Cable's POV.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_e2cd1428	type	Widow's Weeds
The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_e2cd1428	comment	Widow's Weeds: Hildy at Cable's funeral, even though they weren't married.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: L.Q. Jones and Strother Martin are basically recycling their characterizations of the Psychopathic Manchild bounty hunters T.C. and Coffer from The Wild Bunch in playing Taggart and Bowen, including the hints of Ho Yay in their Heterosexual Life-Partners relationship.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_e7502007	type	Pull-the-Trigger Provocation
The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_e7502007	comment	Pull The Trigger Provocation: When Hogue's old criminal cronies shows up to rob him, Hogue points a rifle at Taggert. The criminal taunts him with, "You ain't got the guts, Hogue." Despite his promise to God, Hogue pulls the trigger, killing his nemesis.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_ead5a011	type	Twilight of the Old West
The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_ead5a011	comment	Twilight of the Old West: For most of the film, you assume it's a typical 19th century Western setting, but the appearance of cars and a motorcycle at the end reveal that, like The Wild Bunch, it's actually the early 1900s.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_edfacbac	type	Covert Pervert
The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_edfacbac	comment	Covert Pervert: Joshua lets his hands wander freely around the bodies of the women he "ministers" to.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Joshua can talk up quite a jumble of erudition when he gets going.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_f1dcc3f	comment	Soprano and Gravel: Robards and Stevens share a duet called "Butterfly Mornings" which has this effect.
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Ballad of Cable Hogue / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: There were lots of English immigrants in The Wild West, so having David Warner play Joshua was an unusual, but very plausible, casting choice.
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