Sam Peckinpah's follow up to The Wild Bunch was closer to Noon Wine and features the same star as that - Jason Robards. This was budgeted at $880,000 and blew out to $3.7 million which is absurd for a simple tale.
Roberts is engaing as Cable who discovers water and falls for a hooker (Stella Stevens). Peckinpah/s direction of Stevens is pervy and lecherous - close ups of her crotch, cleavage, arse, etc... She's very winning it's just Peckinpah is such a perve. So too David Warner's charactr. he's a sexual predator.
Strother Martin, LQ Jones, Slim Pickens, RG Armstrong and company are on hand.
This film is beloved in some areas. It didn't do it for me. The ending was quite moving when he dies.
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