The Ballad of Cable Hogue
- R
- Year:
- 1970
- 121 min
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Sorry, old-timer...
...but you're only part poison,
and I'm hungry for meat.
Taggart?
Bowen, go easy.
You peckerwoods just raised hell
with our supper.
Find any water?
I appreciate humor, boys...
...but I'm beginning to think
you're cutting it a mite thin.
What else we got to do?
What did you find?
that's what we found.
We had you shaking, didn't we, Cable?
Hold him, boy. Get over there.
It's just like you said, Hogue.
but not for three.
You damn fool. You had us.
You just wouldn't pull the trigger.
- Because you're yellow.
- Yeah, he's yellow. Just plain yellow.
- Hell, you're yellow, Hogue.
- Cable is yellow.
Old Cable's yellow
Old Cable is white
Old Cable's dying
But that's all right
Taggart and Bowen as slick as you please
Took all the water and left for the trees
Hey, fellas. Leave me a little.
- Please.
- It's all yours, Cable.
Fifty thousand gallons of sand.
- We've got your water, Cable.
- Yellow!
Call me yellow.
Leave me to dry and blow away.
Sing a song about it!
Laugh at old Cable Hogue, huh?
I'll get out! I'll get out!
Don't you worry none about that!
You just...
...worry about when I get out.
I'll find you, Taggart.
You, Bowen,
you mealy-mouthed little pimp.
You never could tell gold-shine from
lizard sh*t, and there's a big difference.
A big difference!
I'll live to spit on your graves!
Old Cable's yellow
Yellow!
We got your water.
Ain't had no water
since yesterday, Lord.
Getting a little thirsty.
Just thought I'd mention it. Amen.
Yesterday, I told you I was thirsty...
...and I thought you might
turn up some water.
Now, if I sinned,
you just send me a drop or two...
...and I won't do it no more...
...whatever in the hell it was I did.
I mean that, Lord.
Four days without water. You don't
think I've put in my suffering time...
...you ought to try going dry for a spell.
Listen to me. Listen to me.
If I don't get some soon,
I ain't gonna have no chance to repent.
Careful, now.
You're about to get my dander up.
Lord...
...you call it.
I'm just plain done in.
Amen.
Hogue...
...found it.
Told you I was gonna live.
Hogue. Me.
Cable Hogue. Hogue. Me.
Me. I did it. Cable Hogue.
I found it. Me.
Wagons.
Stagecoaches.
Buckboards.
With kids and mamas.
People.
Going somewhere on a road.
And I'm on it.
Me and my water hole.
I whipped them bastards.
Now all I gotta do is wait.
Get out of there, boy.
Get with it. Hop on.
Hey, wait a minute, fellas.
Please.
Is something the matter?
Why are we stopping? Are we in trouble?
He is, we ain't.
- Nice evening, fellas.
- You're a long way from home.
- I'm halfway to hell and looking for help.
- You got it, pilgrim.
You've fallen among good hands.
The Gospel says:
Do unto others...- You want a ride in?
- He can ride inside with us.
- Matthew, chapter 2, verse 3.
- Daniel, are you sure?
I've told you never
to question my judgment.
As I hear, I judge,
and my judgment is just.
- I've never questioned your judgment.
In the 26 years of our marriage,
blessed by a devotion to the Lord...
...I have never questioned
your judgment. But I am now.
It seems ridiculous to sit in the middle
of the desert, watching men drink.
We're near halfway in.
- How about $3?
- Nope.
If sugar were 2 cents a barrel...
...I couldn't afford a pinch of salt
or an egg to put it on.
- I was robbed about five days back.
- Robbed? Robbed?
- Robbery, did you say?
- They nailed me on the flats.
- They took everything I had.
- Mister, you're damn lucky to be alive.
Your language is disgusting.
Both of you.
Hell, we know that.
Well! More profanity.
Shoot, partner, crawl on up.
You can ride for nothing.
- What do you expect me to do?
- I expect you to take action.
We should leave.
Will you please instruct the driver?
- No, thanks.
- Driver, it's getting late.
Don't fret, Your Honor.
We're just fixing to leave
as soon as I count my money.
- Count your what?
- Soon as I water my mule.
Watering his mule?
What on earth does he mean?
- I'll explain it to you later.
- How far is it to town?
- Oh, Deaddog's...
- Twenty miles.
- And Gila City is about...
- Same old 20 miles.
- I don't see any mules.
- Looks like you could use another stop.
Wouldn't be no good without water.
to be driven by horses.
Please.
No water between Gila and Deaddog?
Nope.
Sure don't seem to bother me none.
Daniel, are you going
to do something or am I?
Be worth a lot if a fella was to find it?
Worth a damn sight more than gold.
- Driver, it's getting dark.
- Generally does about this time.
- Get him to start this vehicle.
- Never, anywhere.
- Just... Daniel.
- Yep.
- I demand you start this vehicle at once.
Fellas?
Sure do... Well, many thanks.
- Many thanks till you're better paid.
- Start this vehicle.
to your superiors.
do you hear?
The wrath of God cometh
on the children of disobedience.
- Ephesians, chapter 5, verse 6.
- Amen.
Hallelujah, brother! The Lord
giveth and the Lord taketh away.
- Matthew, chapter 2...
- When are you coming back?
Next week. You sure
you don't wanna ride with us?
No.
No.
I'll be right here, Hogue.
Right here.
Hey, feller.
Hey, hold up there a minute, feller.
That's 10 cents. That's my water.
My land, my water.
- Found it where it wasn't. Ten cents.
- Here's your pay.
- You shouldn't have done that.
- Is that so?
- Give me that rifle.
- I'll give you what's in it.
Now get out.
Drop by again.
Always open for business.
You're my first customer.
Appears to me you've been
Not that it seems to bother you none.
Peace and goodwill, brother.
I come as a friend.
- Careful, son, I'm a man of God.
- Well, you damn near joined him.
- Anybody with you?
- I'm alone.
I am the Reverend
Joshua Duncan Sloane...
...preacher to all of eastern Nevada
and selected parts of northern Arizona.
Well, you're a sorry preacher.
And a hell of a sneak.
In my case, sir, those thus attributed
often go hand in hand.
And speaking of such,
here is mine in all good fellowship.
I'm Cable Hogue.
Cable? That's rather
an unusual name, isn't it?
You have builded an oasis
out of this wilderness.
Oh, no, I just stumbled on that mud hole
over there and I dug it out a little.
You might call this place
Cable Springs. Sound good?
Yeah.
That excavation, a wine cellar perhaps?
No, that's a three-holer.
Expecting a lot of business.
I see tragedy has already struck
this cactus Eden.
No, that's no tragedy.
Shot the son of a b*tch.
With his own rifle. He tried to kill me.
He was my first customer.
You're my second.
Well said and well done. Defend thyself
with the jawbone of an ass if need be.
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