Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced its June line-up
of new-to-Blu-ray film catalog releases this past week … three in all.
Up first is the June 6 Blu-ray debut of director Sam
Peckinpah’s 1970 end-of-an-era Western, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, starring
Jason Robards as the proud owner of a watering hole. If Peckinpah’s masterpiece Western, The
Wild Bunch, signaled the end of an era — the ending of the “wild”
frontier and the Western as a uniquely American film genre — The
Ballad of Cable Hogue was the epitaph.
Not Peckinpah’s best film work, but an interesting character
study nonetheless. Robards shines in
this bittersweet tale of a man struggling to survive, finding everything —
including the love of his life (Stella Stevens) — and then is ironically killed
by “progress” on the day that everything comes together.
Also on the new-to-Blu-ray release list from Warner Bros.
are writer/director Chuck Bail’s 1976 road racing comedy, The Gumball Rally (June
13) and filmmaker Sidney Lumet’s 1988 film release of Running on Empty (June
27).
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