The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1970. Vintage photograph from the 1970 film, showing actors Stella Stevens and Jason Robards taking direction from Sam Peckinpah on the set. With manuscript annotations regarding layout on the verso.

A charming, surreal revisionist Western comedy, an unusual move for Peckinpah, as it was released on the heels of "The Wild Bunch" (1969), and just prior to "Straw Dogs" (1971), both famed for being the high spots of the director's famed odes to violence and male madness. Certainly, though, Jason Robards—in what many consider to be his finest performance—is as lost as any of Peckinpah's characters, but viewed from a different, more relaxed perspective.

Set in Arizona, shot on location in Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico.

10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

[Book #144248]