Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and makes money off the stagecoach passengers. Hildy, a prostitute from the nearest town, moves in with him. Hogue has everything going his way until the advent of the automobile ends the era of the stagecoach.
- prostitute
- homeless person
- desert
- stagecoach
- prospector
- reverend
- way station
- rattlesnake
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- L.Q. Jones — Taggart
- Strother Martin — Bowen
- R.G. Armstrong — Quittner
- Peter Whitney — Cushing
- Gene Evans — Clete
- William Mims — Jensen
- Susan O'Connell — Claudia
- Vaughn Taylor — Powell
- Kathleen Freeman — Mrs. Jensen
- Max Evans — Webb Seely
- James Anderson — Preacher
- Directed
- Sam Peckinpah
- Written
- John Crawford, Gordon T. Dawson, Edmund Penney
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 230 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
