Quick Letterboxd Thoughts: The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

Here's some quick Letterboxd thoughts for The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970):  https://boxd.it/1iGLR1

Jason Robards is rising to the top of my all-time favorite actors.  Even though he wears a gruff demeanor, he exudes sentimentality that everyone adores (especially the audience).  As the perverted and immoral Preacher Josh proclaims: “He wasn’t really a good man, he’s wasn’t a bad man, but Lord, he was a man.”

Coming into this film, I prepared myself for a whole bloody affair.  Besides the massacre of a few reptiles and rodents, Peckinpah is restrained, subdued, and produces a film with a lot of heart.  Just like me, I don’t think Cable Hogue got the revenge he expected.  Instead, he truly achieves peace well suited for this ballad.

 

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