Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. After essentially blowing up the Western genre, what do you do next? In the case of Sam Peckinpah, coming off the divisive glory of "The Wild Bunch," which was excoriated for its brutal violence, you make a silly — yet slyly consequential — comedy like 1970's "The Ballad of Cable Hogue."
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. After essentially blowing up the Western genre, what do you do next? In the case of Sam Peckinpah, coming off the divisive glory of "The Wild Bunch," which was excoriated for its brutal violence, you make a silly — yet slyly consequential — comedy like 1970's "The Ballad of Cable Hogue."