The Ballad of Cable Hogue (BD) "Chess Sets"

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (BD) "Chess Sets"It's 1908. The West has changed. Grizzled frontiersman Cable Hogue (Jason Robards) hasn't. Despite the fortune he's made selling water to thirsty desert travelers, he lies in wait. Someday two no account desert rats who long ago robbed Hogue and left him to die in the baking Arizona sand will drop by for a drink. After the violence of The Wild Bunch, director Sam Peckinpah shifted moods with this memorable fable, less a tale of revenge than it is a

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Twenty-eight-year-old Ronald Reagan portrays the idealistic junior D

working under its board of five kindly coots: blacksmith Mayor Charlie Rudorph (Thomas Brower)

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where Michael is certain to meet his doom at either the hands of the warring Turkomen or his own soldiers

Neither she nor her pulp-fiction-author beau (Red Skelton) knows she's actually working for spies -who got the idea from one of his potboiler novels

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thwarted by Daphne Heap (Margaret Hamilton--The Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz) and seduced by Suzanne (Shelley Duvall)

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there's magic and timeless songs hereabouts: "Almost Like Being in Love