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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Why this pick
Like Cable Hogue, it finds tenderness, humor, and hard-earned independence on a scruffy frontier, but with an even more melancholy, atmospheric drift and an unconventional romance.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1970 2h 1m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Bad Company
Why this pick
A revisionist Western with the same affection for flawed outsiders trying to invent a life beyond polite society; its comedy gradually gives way to bruising moral consequence.
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The Hired Hand
Why this pick
Its spare desert imagery, wistful pacing, and focus on a drifter seeking connection echo Cable Hogue’s humane, bittersweet view of freedom and companionship.
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Rancho Deluxe
Why this pick
This offbeat, sun-faded comic fable shares Cable Hogue’s fondness for eccentric schemes, marginal characters, and a distinctly 1970s mixture of satire, loneliness, and open-country texture.
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Junior Bonner
Why this pick
Peckinpah trades gunfights for rodeo life but keeps the warm, rueful humor and deep sympathy for people whose pride and dreams no longer fit the changing West.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jason Robards
Cable Hogue
Stella Stevens
Hildy
Strother Martin
Bowen
Peter Whitney
Cushing
Gene Evans
Clete
William Mims
Jensen
Susan O'Connell
Claudia
Felix Nelson
William