The Ballad of Cable Hogue

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) was something of a departure for Peckinpah. It was a quirky and ironic parable about the passing of the Old West, with Jason Robards, David Warner, and Stella Stevens. Straw Dogs (1971), however, was another violent, boundary-breaking drama. The…

…Minsky’s (1968), and Sam Peckinpah’s The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970). Robards later earned two consecutive Academy Awards for his subtle, well-modulated performances as The Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee in All the President’s Men (1976) and detective novelist Dashiell Hammett in Julia (1977). He received