![]() Jason Robards stars in the title role, a desert rat left to fend for himself after his two unscrupulous partners (the always-reliable Strother Martin and L.Q. ![]() Due to typical studio finagling, BALLAD was far from a hit when it was released in May 1970 but it has since then attained a better place in the western pantheon. Alongside his 1972 contemporary western JUNIOR BONNER, BALLAD is Peckinpah at his most relaxed, as well as his most overtly comic. Case in point is his 1970 western THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE. ![]() "Bloody Sam", as he was so often called, was also a mercurial and complicated director who could quite easily master the fine art of congenial character studies as he could the dark and violent side of Man. There was always far more to Sam Peckinpah than just bullets, bloodbaths, and squibs. Reviewed by virek213 9 / 10 Found Water Where It Wasn't
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