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CHARMING

is the word to describe today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

And a lot of the charm has to do with Jason Robards and Stella Stevens who take the leads.

It is a Sam Pekinpah directed comedy/drama/comedy.

It has some great support from Slim Pickens and Strother Martin and the British actor David Warner takes an idiosyncratic turn as a sinning itinerant preacher.

It is all rather enjoyable while not at all high art or even high western.

There is some great stuff used to show time passing; one scene dovetails with another some time later without a seam.

What else? The story is pretty slim. It is the characterizations that make it all work.

I will give it a 4 out of Neftlix5.