'The Ballad of Cable Houge' was director Sam Peckinpah's follow up to his mega hit, the famously violent 1969 western 'The Wild Bunch'. This movie kept things in western territory but both slowed them down and lightened them up. Prospector Jason Robards is left for dead in the Nevada desert by his partners, he stumbles upon the only source of water in 40 miles and decides to make it a stage stop. He befriends a lovely proustite (Stella Stevens) and a lecherous preacher (David Warner). Part comedy, part revenge movie, part philosophical ramblings, this ideocentric film took me a bit to sync with, but once I did I thoroughly enjoyed it. ***1/2
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