Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Movie Review - The Ballad of Cable Hogue

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
directed by Sam Peckinpah
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults

"Ballad" is right, even against a theme song that rivals Jim Croce's contribution to The Last American Hero for best example of nowhere-but-the-seventies carbon dating. Nothing would surprise me less than learning that Roger Corman had a secret hand in the top-heavy tits-and-ass editing, or that there's more to Thunderbolt and Lightfoot than Jeff Bridges and Dirty Harry.