šµ Trooper Hook (1957) is a compelling Western drama directed by Charles Marquis Warren, starring legendary actors Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck. Set against the rugged frontier landscape, the film dives deep into complex themes of loyalty, prejudice, and redemption. This forgotten gem beautifully captures the emotional struggles of post-war America through the eyes of a cavalry trooper and a resilient woman.
š„ Released in 1957 and running for 1 hour and 19 minutes, Trooper Hook masterfully blends action and human drama, earning its rightful place among classic Western cinema.
š Plot Summary
Trooper Hook, a seasoned cavalryman, is assigned the duty of escorting Cora Sutliff (Barbara Stanwyck) and her young son, Quintanoāthe child of an Apache chiefāback to civilization after they are freed from an Indian tribe. Cora, once a white settler, had been captured years before and bore a child while living among the Apaches.
Facing hostile settlers, prejudice, and personal shame, Cora must battle societal judgment while trying to secure a future for her son. Trooper Hook, a man of few words but immense moral strength, becomes her protector and, eventually, her hope for redemption and love.
Together, they brave a harsh journey across the rugged West, pursued by angry Apache warriors who want the boy back and facing intolerance from their own people.
The emotional bond that develops between Trooper Hook and Cora provides a touching contrast to the violence and hatred surrounding them. Trooper Hook is not just a Western about survivalāit's a poignant story of human dignity and resilience.
š„ Released in 1957 and running for 1 hour and 19 minutes, Trooper Hook masterfully blends action and human drama, earning its rightful place among classic Western cinema.
š Plot Summary
Trooper Hook, a seasoned cavalryman, is assigned the duty of escorting Cora Sutliff (Barbara Stanwyck) and her young son, Quintanoāthe child of an Apache chiefāback to civilization after they are freed from an Indian tribe. Cora, once a white settler, had been captured years before and bore a child while living among the Apaches.
Facing hostile settlers, prejudice, and personal shame, Cora must battle societal judgment while trying to secure a future for her son. Trooper Hook, a man of few words but immense moral strength, becomes her protector and, eventually, her hope for redemption and love.
Together, they brave a harsh journey across the rugged West, pursued by angry Apache warriors who want the boy back and facing intolerance from their own people.
The emotional bond that develops between Trooper Hook and Cora provides a touching contrast to the violence and hatred surrounding them. Trooper Hook is not just a Western about survivalāit's a poignant story of human dignity and resilience.
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00:04:16A handful escaped.
00:04:18Families were rounded up.
00:04:20Village burned.
00:04:22Lieutenant De Rowe lead the first charge.
00:04:24He was overpowered.
00:04:27He and his men were killed in action.
00:04:31No.
00:04:33Make that executed.
00:04:41March back to the fort will be slow because of the number of prisoners taken.
00:04:46That's about it.
00:04:49How do you want the sign, General?
00:04:52Sergeant Clovis Hook.
00:04:54Yes, sir.
00:04:56Never mind the sir.
00:04:57Hey, Sergeant.
00:05:04Time for you and me to get something off my chest.
00:05:07That's all the lousy water we got.
00:05:09Stand easy, soldier.
00:05:10What does it say we got a dying thirst to keep the dead from putrefying?
00:05:14You got your orders.
00:05:16I also got a ration of water coming.
00:05:18And I'm taking it.
00:05:19Brian, you've already cost yourself a ten-day tour on latrine duty.
00:05:24One swallow and I'll make it your life's work.
00:05:32Don't worry, mister.
00:05:33If you die of thirst, I'll put you in for corporal.
00:05:35Sergeant, over here.
00:05:48Up here, Sergeant.
00:05:56This is White.
00:05:57White, Sergeant.
00:05:58I declare.
00:06:01I'm Sergeant Hook, ma'am.
00:06:05She keeps not saying nothing.
00:06:07Don't give her time.
00:06:09She got no idea what she must have been going through.
00:06:11It's going to be all right now, ma'am.
00:06:17You just don't worry about a thing.
00:06:20DeJoyer!
00:06:20DeJoyer!
00:06:22DeJoyer!
00:06:23DeJoyer!
00:06:24DeJoyer!
00:06:25DeJoyer!
00:06:28Manches is the boy's father.
00:06:31Hey, wait a minute.
00:06:33You don't think that you...
00:06:35The boy, ma'am.
00:06:37Is he yours?
00:06:42You and Natchez?
00:06:44You mean you let yourself whelp that butcher's kid?
00:06:47You ain't no white woman.
00:06:49No more, you ain't.
00:06:50Just say in your dispatch we're bringing back a white woman.
00:06:53Begging Sergeant's pardon, but...
00:06:55Don't you reckon folks back at the post ought to know
00:06:57that they'll be rolling out the carpet for Natchez's squaw
00:06:59and the red-skinned mongrel?
00:07:02Just say the woman is the mother of Natchez's child.
00:07:25That must be the one.
00:07:34Me too!
00:07:36How?
00:07:36Take her.
00:07:58Take him to the guardhouse.
00:08:01Strange man, Sergeant.
00:08:02Making such a point of honorable surrender for the worst butcher in the Territory.
00:08:16Imla.
00:08:18Mary Imla.
00:08:25Cora Sutler.
00:08:32I think you've hit it, sir.
00:08:35Cora Sutler.
00:08:37Is that you?
00:08:42This report says you're on your way to join your husband when the wagon train was attacked by a band of sheer cars.
00:08:49You were the only one taken alive.
00:08:51This is definitely, Sergeant. I can't even be sure if this woman's in the right mind.
00:09:02Hasn't she said one word since you found her?
00:09:05Not a word, sir.
00:09:07There's nothing here to indicate where your husband might be now, ma'am.
00:09:13I'll start an inquiry and see if we can't locate him.
00:09:18We'll be sending Natchez and his people to the reservation in San Carlos in a few days.
00:09:24The boy can go with them.
00:09:29I wouldn't count on Natchez going to San Carlos, sir.
00:09:32What?
00:09:33I know him. He won't.
00:09:35He thinks the place is a pest hole.
00:09:37A few days on the platform will change his mind.
00:09:43Am I to understand you intend to keep this boy?
00:09:45What about your husband, ma'am?
00:09:51You'll be wishing this child on him, too.
00:09:55Doesn't she realize she's playing the fool?
00:09:58He's her son, sir.
00:10:00But he's...
00:10:02Oh, well, it's not our affair.
00:10:07Where do you want Mrs. Sutcliffe to stay, sir?
00:10:10Oh, well.
00:10:12Put her in the empty quarters along Sub's Row.
00:10:16Yes, sir.
00:10:22You'll be fine there, ma'am.
00:10:23You'll be all to yourself.
00:10:41You'll be fine.
00:10:42You'll be fine.
00:10:48I...
00:10:49Pam.
00:11:02Adam.
00:11:04What would your feelings be if I were in her place?
00:11:07That doesn't even deserve an answer.
00:11:11Doesn't it?
00:11:13You'd have killed yourself before you let it happen to you.
00:11:19I wonder.
00:11:37I wonder.
00:11:39I wonder...
00:11:40You're...
00:11:49I wonder.
00:11:52What do you think?
00:11:53I wonder.
00:11:54What do you think?
00:11:56You ask me?
00:11:58I wonder...
00:12:00You're a suspect.
00:13:03He can come down any time he says the word, Sergeant.
00:13:08I know.
00:13:09All he has to do is promise to take his people to San Carlos and stay there.
00:13:14He won't.
00:13:15I saw you untie his bonds.
00:13:18You respect him, don't you?
00:13:19He's a cruel, treacherous man, sir.
00:13:22Well?
00:13:23He doesn't particularly care for me either.
00:13:26He fights his way, I fight mine.
00:13:29Putting yourself on his level?
00:13:31They're just a couple of dogs haggling over the same bone.
00:13:35Only it happens to be his bone.
00:13:36Leave him away, Whitaker.
00:13:49You can have him, Sergeant.
00:14:04Boy goes with his mother, Natchez.
00:14:06That's the way it has to be.
00:14:07Who knows what has to be?
00:14:13Who knows what has to be?
00:14:13Please, Mrs. Sutcliffe.
00:14:43I've brought you a dress.
00:14:47Won't you let me in?
00:14:53Please accept it.
00:14:55I'll put it down by the door.
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00:15:26Zota.
00:15:43Zota.
00:15:53I love you.
00:16:09At ease Sergeant.
00:16:10Thank you sir.
00:16:12Mrs Sutliff.
00:16:13We've located a husband.
00:16:14I should be glad to hear that Colonel.
00:16:16Fred Sutliff.
00:16:17The name is right and everything else checks.
00:16:20It's got some kind of a ranch outside San Miguel.
00:16:22Near Tucson.
00:16:23I dare say you'll run into a few complications.
00:16:26I dare say sir.
00:16:27And I know you won't let us down.
00:16:29Where do we start sir?
00:16:30We'll draw expense money on being on your way before Reveille.
00:16:33Take one of the men along as escort as far as the settlement where you can get the stage.
00:16:37Yes sir.
00:16:39That's all.
00:16:39Do what I know.
00:16:56What are you?
00:16:57What are you?
00:17:00What are you?
00:17:01What are you?
00:17:02What are you about?
00:17:03Go.
00:17:03Hey, Sergeant!
00:17:33We've got to do something about the chief right now.
00:17:36You should be grateful I'm letting you make this trip.
00:17:38Man's on latrine duty too long, he can turn real bitter.
00:17:42All right, that did it. I'm going to tie you down my belt.
00:17:44Oh, kids don't need tying.
00:17:51Hey, Sergeant.
00:17:53How many years you got to be married before you learn to handle a kid like that?
00:17:56You talk too much, soldier.
00:18:03You know where you should be, don't you?
00:18:21The one we've been hearing about.
00:18:23The one Nancy's had.
00:18:29You look like a thirsty jackass sniffing out a rain barrel.
00:18:33I'm human.
00:18:34Grab yourself a drink and get back to the fort.
00:18:36Yes, sir.
00:18:37Ryan.
00:18:38Don't forget, you have to take these horses back.
00:18:43Thanks.
00:18:46Howdy.
00:18:48Gentlemen.
00:18:54Sit down, man.
00:18:55Have you?
00:19:00Yeah, do you think you could rustle up some cheese and crackers for them?
00:19:03I'd be obliged.
00:19:05I guess we can manage that, Sergeant.
00:19:08I'm going across the street to see about the stage fairs and get my gear aboard.
00:19:12Won't be a minute.
00:19:13Just rest yourselves.
00:19:14This ought to be mighty interesting.
00:19:30You aim to waste good vettles fattening up nances, this kid, Mr. Bean?
00:19:34Ah, take it easy, kid.
00:19:36No trouble, huh?
00:19:37I'm right about him belonging to that Indian scum, ain't I?
00:19:42Right, I?
00:19:44I thought so.
00:19:46Maybe you like having him, but you don't have to come flaunting him around decent white women.
00:19:50Take your hands off my son!
00:19:52Oh!
00:19:54Get that down!
00:19:55An animal!
00:19:56All of you!
00:19:58An animal!
00:20:01This one of you, someone just touches my boy, I'll kill you!
00:20:06Well, gentlemen.
00:20:15This young fella here needs some traveling clothes.
00:20:17Because you're wearing that uniform don't mean we've got to help Indian leavings.
00:20:22Maybe some of you get out and scrounge up something for the boy to wear.
00:20:26Must be some small kids around this place.
00:20:39Get out.
00:21:06Those were the first words I've heard out of you, man.
00:21:09Mighty powerful sentiments, but they sounded real good.
00:21:13I don't want to cause you any trouble.
00:21:15Trouble?
00:21:16No trouble.
00:21:18No trouble.
00:21:30Thank you, ma'am.
00:21:31Olai!
00:21:43Olai!
00:21:49Could you use a hat, sergeant?
00:21:51Well, thanks.
00:21:52The boys don't need hats only in winter.
00:21:54Sergeant.
00:21:55Nearly time for Mr. Truth to show up.
00:21:57You'd better be inside that coach before he gets there.
00:21:59Thank you, ma'am.
00:22:01Gentlemen.
00:22:02All right, folks, you're traveling with a glory rider who makes fight and wages, and don't wait for another one.
00:22:04All right, folks, you're traveling with a glory rider who makes fight and wages.
00:22:31And don't wait for another one.
00:22:33I mean, it'll be a cult anymore, but he's lost none of my pitch.
00:22:37I'm half mustang and half alligator.
00:22:40Now, get going, you critters.
00:22:41Honour.
00:22:42Honour.
00:22:43Honour.
00:22:47Honour.
00:22:50Honour.
00:22:52A trooper's journey to restore her to her husband bound with grief, but she would not part with a child of a heart, a scorn she knew, fear and danger too, danger too.
00:23:11The Indian, he treats you all right?
00:23:27He beat me once.
00:23:32Maybe it was right, I wouldn't work.
00:23:38It was the scores made me wish I were dead.
00:23:41Figured that.
00:23:45But they stopped when I became one of them.
00:23:50Looked like them.
00:23:53Smelled like them.
00:24:04Harry!
00:24:04Harry!
00:24:04Harry!
00:24:05Harry!
00:24:06Harry!
00:24:11Harry!
00:24:11Harry!
00:24:12Harry!
00:24:12Harry!
00:24:12Harry!
00:24:13Well, I guess it looks like what it is, don't it?
00:24:30When I hit that rock, me and the wagon stopped, but the horse didn't.
00:24:34How much does it take me to the next town?
00:24:36A dollar or two bits.
00:24:37Now, get in fast.
00:24:38You made me lose half a minute already.
00:24:39You three together?
00:25:02Yes.
00:25:04Oh, your wife, Santa.
00:25:06No.
00:25:09Pardon me, lady.
00:25:12Them moccasins?
00:25:14You find them more comfortable than shoes?
00:25:25That's the fashion of these parts, I mean your hair.
00:25:28Cut them right short, looks for me.
00:25:31Any reason for it?
00:25:33Life.
00:25:34She joked me, pulling my leg.
00:25:42That's pretty bad out here, so is the flies this time of year.
00:25:46Best keep your mouth closed.
00:25:48All right, all right, all right, all right.
00:25:53What's that?
00:25:55Why'd you pick up that kid anyway?
00:25:59That's the truth.
00:26:00Whoa!
00:26:02Whoa!
00:26:03There he is.
00:26:04Well, they got me a stranger to meet.
00:26:09Where's the trouble?
00:26:10Our friend here wants to ride up on the box with you.
00:26:13Real fine view up there, healthy.
00:26:16Now, wait a minute.
00:26:17Where did you get the idea that I was...
00:26:18Healthy!
00:26:21I reckon he's right.
00:26:23Come along, mister.
00:26:24You can watch me snap off rattler heads.
00:26:25What's he mean, doing this to me?
00:26:42Hey, what he's likely to do, I'd be worried about, mister.
00:26:45It's her.
00:26:46What are you talking about?
00:26:47That's Nancez's woman down there.
00:26:49You hate her, Nancez.
00:26:50The Apache?
00:26:51You get her riled up and she's likely to cut your heart out with a dull knife.
00:26:55Well, look, Chevy, you're bleeding up to fill a bog hole.
00:27:00You know something, uh...
00:27:03Quito.
00:27:04Quito?
00:27:05With your command of language,
00:27:08you've got all the makings of a sergeant.
00:27:25Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:27:42Well, come here, mister Wilson.
00:27:45Any trade on schedule?
00:27:46Thank you, mister.
00:27:47You. Sorry Sergeant but the dining room is filled up. We're not hungry.
00:28:17That's what a fool boy gets for coyote around without a man's constitution.
00:28:47I'm hungry.
00:28:54I'm hungry.
00:28:57I'm hungry.
00:29:06I'm hungry.
00:29:12Oh, no.
00:29:14No.
00:29:15No.
00:29:16No.
00:29:17No.
00:29:18No.
00:29:20No.
00:29:21No.
00:29:22No.
00:29:23No.
00:29:24No.
00:29:25No.
00:29:26No.
00:29:27No.
00:29:29No.
00:29:30No.
00:29:31No.
00:29:32No.
00:29:33No.
00:29:34Good.
00:29:35Mm.
00:29:36Clear.
00:29:37Cold.
00:29:38Water.
00:29:39Like a stream back home.
00:29:41Boy seems to like the water too.
00:29:45Yes.
00:29:46You learn how to swim yet?
00:29:49No.
00:29:50Sorry about Wilson.
00:29:52It doesn't matter.
00:29:55Cook in Wilson's kitchen used to be a mess, I do.
00:30:01Good thing nobody's hungry.
00:30:02No.
00:30:03No.
00:30:04No.
00:30:05No.
00:30:06No.
00:30:07No.
00:30:08No.
00:30:09No.
00:30:11No.
00:30:20Good thing nobody's hungry.
00:30:25Oh.
00:30:27Oh.
00:30:28Why don't you ask me?
00:30:43Ask me what?
00:30:45How I felt when he put his hands on me.
00:30:47Was it like any other man?
00:30:50That's not my business.
00:30:51That's not true.
00:30:52Every man who looks at me makes it his business.
00:30:56I guess you're right.
00:30:58I can't help it.
00:31:00They hate the Indian for what they themselves might have done, but...
00:31:05They hate me even more.
00:31:09I don't hate you.
00:31:12That's the difference.
00:31:14That's why I can talk to you this way.
00:31:17Talking helps.
00:31:22I got used to being his score.
00:31:24It was just one of those things I had to learn and accept in order to survive.
00:31:32But just now, down there in the cold, clear water...
00:31:38Watching my son.
00:31:40Listening to him laugh.
00:31:41That one moment was worth all our years.
00:31:56Can you understand wanting so much to live?
00:31:59I guess I got good reason to understand real well, ma'am.
00:32:02Don't cut yourself.
00:32:30Marquise.
00:32:43There was once I wanted to live so bad, I turned myself into a dog.
00:32:48For a whole month, I was a dog.
00:32:50You ever heard of Andersonville?
00:32:58Rebs called it a prison camp.
00:33:00Devil himself couldn't have thought of a worse crawl in hell.
00:33:03All around men dying of scurvy and dysentery.
00:33:08Mush and sick bacon all there was to eat and never enough of that.
00:33:12Everything putrid inside and out.
00:33:18Look.
00:33:20Maybe you don't want to hear any more of this.
00:33:22You said talking help.
00:33:24There was a man dying of lung fever.
00:33:29Just waiting to die.
00:33:31Out of his head most of the time.
00:33:33He happened to love dogs.
00:33:35And I found if I bark once or twice, he'd give me some of his rations.
00:33:39That's how it started.
00:33:42Then I used to wake up in the morning planning on being a dog.
00:33:46Even got down my hands and knees to put on a good show.
00:33:48For a whole month, I was a dog.
00:33:54Poor fellow died thinking I was one.
00:33:57But I lived.
00:34:00All depends on how hard you want to live, I guess.
00:34:05We'd better get moving, ma'am.
00:34:07Tito.
00:34:18All right, get blind.
00:34:39Let me see if he'll grow.
00:34:40Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:34:48Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:34:54Evening, man.
00:34:56You general.
00:34:57Evening.
00:35:01You too, bub.
00:35:06Sorry to disappoint you, Mr. True, but you got the pleasure of my company again.
00:35:09For some topic of gentile conversation, you folks would like to worry some?
00:35:23No.
00:35:29Maybe you'll pardon me.
00:35:31I just put in a couple of rough days for Sun-Fed Wrangler.
00:35:36I don't count it.
00:35:37I'm gone.
00:35:37I start sliding, you know, just raise a hook and give me a shot, will you?
00:35:54I don't care.
00:35:59I don't care.
00:36:07I don't care.
00:36:08I don't care.
00:36:18Ma'am, you were saying back there about the kind of thoughts men can't help getting into their minds.
00:36:32Yes.
00:36:34That's different when the man's your husband.
00:36:39You think I'm afraid to face him, don't you?
00:36:42No.
00:36:43I just don't want you to fret about it.
00:36:46My husband is good.
00:36:47He's kind.
00:36:48Sure he is.
00:36:52We were married nine years.
00:36:55We never did have any children.
00:36:58It's too bad.
00:37:01Fred always said I was all he ever needed.
00:37:09Fred always wanted a boy.
00:37:10Once he gets used to the idea and everything, you won't be able to help love him to you.
00:37:25So you see, I really haven't anything to fret about.
00:37:29That's fine.
00:37:30You must miss your family very much.
00:37:48How can you stay away from him so long?
00:37:50Sojourn's the only thing I know.
00:37:53You must be awfully lonely for me.
00:37:59Oh, great and strong, the man was he, and his heart was in his kind.
00:38:08He aimed for guilt and peace and rest.
00:38:12No blame was in his mind.
00:38:14No blame was in his mind.
00:38:16There in square trooper hook, up a day which they took.
00:38:22And if she knew, this man would take them through, take them through.
00:38:31Oh, great and strong, the man would take them through.
00:38:32Oh, great and strong, the man would take them through.
00:38:33Oh, great and strong, the man would take them through.
00:38:34Oh, great and strong, the man would take them through.
00:38:35Oh, great and strong, the man would take them through.
00:38:36Oh, great and strong, the man would take them through.
00:38:37Oh, great and strong, the man would take them through.
00:38:38Oh, great and strong, the man would take them through.
00:38:39Oh, great and strong, the man would take them through.
00:38:40Oh, great and strong, the man would take them through.
00:38:41Oh, great and strong, the man would take them through.
00:38:42Oh, great and strong, the man would take them through.
00:38:43Oh, great and strong, the man would take them through.
00:38:44Oh, great and strong, the man would take them through.
00:38:45I've been sitting like that all night.
00:39:08You must be stiff as Brad and I.
00:39:15You can't help that, can you?
00:39:45No, he can't.
00:39:50It's like you don't fancy me much as a nursemaid.
00:39:57Looks like there's some kind of a town up ahead.
00:40:00Just a change station, a church, a telegraph, and a couple of dopey.
00:40:04That's the end of the line for me.
00:40:07Something there to hold you, cowboy?
00:40:09Yeah, Kincaid Ranch.
00:40:11Let's figure spreading these here parts.
00:40:14We'll be peeling Bronx about now.
00:40:18That woman that knows that in Seattle, all I got to do is to...
00:40:21I don't understand.
00:40:22I'm talking a little thick in the yard.
00:40:34What was expecting you, Mr. Trude?
00:40:36Haven't they got you driving clean through to Tucson?
00:40:38Short-handed.
00:40:39Short-handed.
00:40:40Ah, you must be sore worn out.
00:40:42First kitchen was second breast, Junior, but you better change these poor weakling horses.
00:40:46I've got three passengers for you.
00:40:48Yeah, there's plenty of room.
00:40:51One of them upshot Spanish ladies and a granddaughter.
00:40:54The girls kind of refined, so they laid off from the last days to rest up.
00:40:58And a rancher, come down from Port Apache.
00:41:01And they've opened wagon, dropped them off.
00:41:03You better change them horses, Junior.
00:41:04Okay.
00:41:08You can let me have that saddle, son, unless you got the money for your fare.
00:41:11Well, I'm busted, and you know it, Mr. Trude.
00:41:14Besides, I don't always pay you when I get some cash.
00:41:16I can't hear you.
00:41:17I'm deaf-ed and a woodpecker in a hailstorm.
00:41:19Besides, the company's on my tail for being so dang easy going.
00:41:22Well, you get that straight, you old buzzer.
00:41:23Now, you ain't leaving me here naked without myself.
00:41:26Oh, woo-rah-roo.
00:41:28Stand easy, cowboy.
00:41:34Something on the seat in here.
00:41:37Must have dropped out of your pocket.
00:41:42I guess...
00:41:43I guess you've been in some tight spots itself, huh?
00:41:46When I was a young squirt with more energy than brains,
00:41:48Well, they ain't hurting them, General.
00:41:52Is this what you've been talking about, Mr. Trude?
00:41:55That's something like it, Johnny.
00:41:57He's nice.
00:42:04Yeah.
00:42:05A man raised a son like that, he can figure he's done something with his life.
00:42:08But you have children.
00:42:09Oh, yeah.
00:42:10But they're girls.
00:42:11Two of them.
00:42:12I was thinking about boys.
00:42:13Oh.
00:42:14You got 15 minutes till breakfast, folks.
00:42:15Hey.
00:42:16What kind of a womanly kitty is up there, Mr. Trude?
00:42:18Hey, if I'm just...
00:42:19Passengers.
00:42:20The old man here will be right in to get you a vessel.
00:42:21Old man?
00:42:22Yeah.
00:42:23What kind of a womanly kitty is up there, Mr. Trude?
00:42:25Passengers.
00:42:26The old man here will be right in to get you a vessel.
00:42:27Old man?
00:42:28What kind of a womanly kitty is up there, Mr. Trude?
00:42:29Passengers.
00:42:30The old man here will be right in to get you a vessel.
00:42:32Old man?
00:42:33What kind of a womanly kitty is up there, Mr. Trude?
00:42:35Passengers.
00:42:36The old man here will be right in to get you a vessel.
00:42:53Old man?
00:42:55I understand English perfectly, young man.
00:43:22Now, if I could only speak it perfect, we'd get along just fine.
00:43:26The name is Travers.
00:43:28Charlie Travers, young man.
00:43:30Yes, sir.
00:43:31Just follow me.
00:43:52Just look at what you got out there, Sergeant.
00:43:59Nothing.
00:44:01Plenty of nothing, huh?
00:44:02No way to do it.
00:44:04But that is just how I got my start.
00:44:07On nothing.
00:44:08Yes, sir.
00:44:12Trailed more than a thousand ahead of cattle from Fort Griffin clear up to Cheyenne.
00:44:19Now, how did I get hold of that many longhorns, you're asking?
00:44:23Hmm?
00:44:26Sat in on a poker game with a month's wages in my pocket and bluffed them away into a pile big enough to choke a horse.
00:44:34You know, I ought to be satisfied to stop right there, you're thinking.
00:44:37Oh, no.
00:44:38That's just the beginning.
00:44:40Yes, sir.
00:44:40I took all of that hard cash and every cent of credit I could wrangle, and I'll put me an outfit on the trail.
00:44:48Oh, that ain't no lie.
00:44:50Yeah, I bought my stock in.
00:44:53Well, well, well.
00:44:55We'll see from you.
00:44:56Got to get this message over to the ranchers.
00:44:58Just came up on a telegraph.
00:44:59Nanchers.
00:45:00You know what I'm going to do?
00:45:01Some of his braids broke you out of Fort Whitney two nights ago.
00:45:04He was last spotted opening in Lordsburg.
00:45:06Now, let's know.
00:45:06Tell him where they're at.
00:45:07I'll find one of your horses.
00:45:11You what?
00:45:12Don't worry about it.
00:45:13I'll live in at the station yard in San Miguel.
00:45:15Now, I'll see you.
00:45:16You can't do that.
00:45:17You...
00:45:37You can't do that.
00:45:47Let's go.
00:46:17Let's go.
00:46:47Let's go.
00:46:48Let's go.
00:46:49Let's go.
00:46:50Let's go.
00:46:51Let's go.
00:46:52Let's go.
00:46:53Let's go.
00:46:55Let's go.
00:46:56Let's go.
00:46:57Let's go.
00:46:58Let's go.
00:46:59Let's go.
00:47:00Let's go.
00:47:01Let's go.
00:47:02Let's go.
00:47:03Let's go.
00:47:04Let's go.
00:47:05Let's go.
00:47:06Let's go.
00:47:07Let's go.
00:47:08Let's go.
00:47:09Let's go.
00:47:10Let's go.
00:47:11Let's go.
00:47:12Let's go.
00:47:13Let's go.
00:47:14Let's go.
00:47:15Let's go.
00:47:16Let's go.
00:47:17Let's go.
00:47:18Let's go.
00:47:19Let's go.
00:47:20Let's go.
00:47:21Let's go.
00:47:22Let's go.
00:47:23Let's go.
00:47:24Let's go.
00:47:25Let's go.
00:47:26Let's go.
00:47:27Let's go.
00:47:28Let's go.
00:47:29Let's go.
00:47:31Let's go.
00:47:32Let's go.
00:47:33We better.
00:47:34I'm super missile amigo.
00:47:35I know what I mean.
00:47:36Yeah.
00:47:37Besides I owe you two dollars worth of something.
00:47:40All right, Mr. Crude.
00:47:44You've been doing a lot of bragging.
00:47:45Now let's see you lean forward and really punch the breeze.
00:47:47Just a minute, soldier.
00:47:48Are you trying to tell me how to run your stage line.
00:47:50Not me.
00:47:51Man just.
00:47:52Oh.
00:47:53Well you got the right man up here.
00:47:56You just tell him to sit tight because we ain't like this touched ground again when we hit
00:47:59Tucson.
00:48:01What's this about Nances?
00:48:04Now, look here.
00:48:05Look here.
00:48:06You're the army.
00:48:06You've got to figure something to do.
00:48:09I'm carrying every cent I've got in the world right here in this money belt.
00:48:13Shut up.
00:48:14It's only right to tell you the fix we're in.
00:48:16You know all about Nances, but the thing you don't know is that we've got something here he wants back more than anything in the world.
00:48:22What are you talking about?
00:48:24The boy.
00:48:25He's his son.
00:48:30Why haven't they attacked before, Sergeant?
00:48:32They'll do that when it's convenient for them.
00:48:34If they don't jump us before dark, we've got the rest of the night to get as close to two sun as we can.
00:48:39They're superstitious about fighting after the sun goes down.
00:48:43Just hold tight.
00:48:45We'll start worrying hard when it counts.
00:48:51Inside, cowboy, and keep your eyes open.
00:48:54Clearing the stage to bring us back.
00:48:56All right, Mr. Trood.
00:48:57The cry receding up high.
00:48:59He snapped his great long snaky whip up against the wind upon the sky.
00:49:04We've got to get out of this crash.
00:49:04We've got to get out of this crash.
00:49:04We've got to shout at her as he drove the stage on the crew.
00:49:09But the Indian followed true.
00:49:12And within the coach they knew.
00:49:15Morton Danger.
00:49:17Everybody want peace?
00:49:33I think so, Sergeant.
00:49:35Somebody take all these bull, junk, hated horses.
00:49:54Get them down.
00:49:54How does it look, Mr. Trood?
00:50:04Got a key cheered, kingpin bent.
00:50:07Is that he fixed?
00:50:08All I can do is try.
00:50:10Banging on me, they'll fix it or bust it complete.
00:50:13Look.
00:50:13He wants a parlay.
00:50:26All I can do is try.
00:50:29He wants a parlay.
00:50:30I can do is try.
00:50:31All I can do is try.
00:50:32All I can do is try.
00:50:32All I can do is try.
00:50:33Bye.
00:50:33All I can do is try.
00:50:35Bye.
00:50:36I ė°ė¤.
00:50:37Okaver can do is try.
00:50:38Let me don't do a good understanding of how andour are notfield as arable.
00:50:40THE END
00:51:10THE END
00:51:40THE END
00:51:44All right.
00:51:46What was the proposition?
00:51:48Why did you turn it down?
00:51:50Nancy says he'll let us go if I'll turn over the boy.
00:51:55What's the matter with that?
00:51:56My orders are to deliver Mrs. Sutliff and the boy to her husband.
00:52:04That kid is more Indian than white.
00:52:08It won't hurt him none to be with his own kind.
00:52:11Look.
00:52:11For the first time, I've got enough money to make something out of my life.
00:52:19You think I'm going to chunk that all away just on account of him?
00:52:23How about you, cowboy?
00:52:32You've seen half the things you want to see?
00:52:36You've been with all the pretty women you ever dreamed about?
00:52:39You ready to die?
00:52:40I remember some mornings when it didn't seem like such a bad idea.
00:52:47You, Mrs. Sandoval, isn't your granddaughter worth more than some half-breed kid?
00:52:54I love my granddaughter, if that is what you mean.
00:53:02Your grandma raised you up in a convent in Santa Fe to make you into a fine lady.
00:53:08And now she's taking you back to marry a rich man.
00:53:11Everything is waiting for you on a silver platter.
00:53:14You're going to lose all that just because she doesn't know what she's going to do?
00:53:17Stop it. Leave her alone.
00:53:20We better get her fire started.
00:53:21It blows up real cold here after the sun goes down.
00:53:51Is there not something I can do?
00:54:04Perhaps so, the lantern.
00:54:06You must be tired.
00:54:08I ain't tired.
00:54:11Maybe if we used to talk a little, you wouldn't be so scary.
00:54:14Hey, Travers.
00:54:20Travers, I'd be much obliged if you'd hold this lantern for a spell.
00:54:32Thanks.
00:54:32You know what, Tim?
00:54:56It's all about a girl named Consuelita, and a fellow who's bursting something fierce for a little sip of wine.
00:55:06She hasn't even got a glass or anything else into which to pour it.
00:55:17You know it.
00:55:18Well, then she says,
00:55:23last, what shall I do?
00:55:26Quench your thirst.
00:55:29I have not to offer with my nips.
00:55:33You didn't pick that up in old convent.
00:55:37It's an old Spanish song.
00:55:42Spanish folks, they're kind of...
00:55:45put a lot of store in things being good and old, don't they?
00:55:48I mean...
00:55:51what a terrible set in their ways.
00:55:54Like this here idea.
00:55:56Hiding a girl away, and then marrying her off to some fellow she hardly even knows.
00:56:01My grandmother will receive him and say,
00:56:03here is she whom you were promised.
00:56:08Their idea wasn't worth much even when it was new.
00:56:26He's never going to get that king thing fixed until he'll do us any good.
00:56:30And they know that, too.
00:56:31Those aren't coyotes we've been hearing.
00:56:36That's Natchez and his bucks having their fun.
00:56:39Just waiting for daylight to make us wish holders.
00:56:50Shackles.
00:56:51They're coming off.
00:56:59You've got to do something.
00:57:01Go someplace and sit down.
00:57:03Talk to her.
00:57:04Make her understand what she's doing.
00:57:06I said sit down.
00:57:06I said sit down.
00:57:06Easy, cowboy.
00:57:35Easy.
00:57:35I got $15,000.
00:58:03Money belt right here.
00:58:05You could have half of it.
00:58:08Leave me alone.
00:58:09You've got a husband waiting for you.
00:58:12Think of what you and him could do with all that money.
00:58:15Go away.
00:58:16You'd be set for life.
00:58:19You'd even make him forget you ever spawned Natchez, kid.
00:58:24All you've got to do is tell the sergeant you want to give the boy back to his father.
00:58:29You think I'd do that for money?
00:58:33I'll give you all of it.
00:58:35Just let me keep a couple of thousand.
00:58:39What else do you want?
00:58:40I don't want your money.
00:58:42I don't want anything from anybody.
00:58:44Don't follow me.
00:58:45Just don't follow me.
00:58:47What do you think you're doing?
00:59:04I don't know.
00:59:04I don't care.
00:59:05I'll run until I drop.
00:59:06If Natchez finds me, he'll have to kill me before he takes my son.
00:59:10If you do any running, it'll be by yourself.
00:59:14Coming with me, boy.
00:59:15Vito.
00:59:17Hako.
00:59:17Another pilot.
00:59:48Seems he did some thinking last night, too.
00:59:50Mr. Favre.
00:59:58Come back here.
00:59:59Natchez, you and me, guy, talk.
01:00:17Don't listen to those others.
01:00:19Just listen to me, Natchez.
01:00:20I stood up against Hook.
01:00:25Yeah.
01:00:26I told him that the kid belonged to you.
01:00:29I was on your side.
01:00:32That's the Lord's truth.
01:00:33Look.
01:00:37Look here.
01:00:37Look here.
01:00:38Look here.
01:00:41Money.
01:00:43That's money.
01:00:44Dinero.
01:00:46Fifteen thousand dollars.
01:00:48Yeah.
01:00:48It's yours.
01:00:50All you got to do is let us go.
01:00:55You can buy guns, ammunition.
01:01:01You can buy all the whiskey you can drink.
01:01:05Look at me.
01:01:06Don't kill me.
01:01:19Don't kill me.
01:01:20Don't kill me.
01:01:22Don't kill me.
01:01:23Shoot that thing, cowboy, and you'll have those bucks swarming all over us.
01:01:50Do you think a party's going to change that?
01:01:53Get down.
01:01:55What are you going to do?
01:02:02Take him up on the rock.
01:02:03I'll be right with you.
01:02:04No!
01:02:05No!
01:02:06No!
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01:03:51My people have long called you Face of Stone.
01:04:03They were wrong.
01:04:05Your name should be Heart of Stone.
01:04:08I do what must be done.
01:04:10You are more Indian than you know.
01:04:14I've taught myself to think like my enemy.
01:04:18I am familiar with your mind.
01:04:21You will not let the blood of my son make you soft.
01:04:24You leave me no choice.
01:04:25And you think you have left me with no choice.
01:04:36Maybe you're more white than you know.
01:04:39You love your son too much to see him killed.
01:04:41With your people he would be like a bat.
01:04:49Neither a bird nor a mouse.
01:04:51A thing of scorn.
01:04:54Let him go with his mother.
01:04:55And I pledge you will have a chance to walk with pride and honor.
01:04:59You cannot speak for your people.
01:05:02You cannot stand against them.
01:05:04Your pledge is worthless.
01:05:07At least the boy will live.
01:05:15I do not choose such a life for my son.
01:05:18Then I have no more to say.
01:05:32Wait.
01:05:38Perhaps our talk has not fallen to the ground.
01:05:41I do not accept your pledge.
01:05:44But today you cast your shadow over me and I must let you go.
01:05:48Tomorrow's sun may make my shadow longer.
01:05:53You will remember this.
01:05:55You will have it in your thoughts day after day.
01:06:18You will have it in your thoughts.
01:06:27You will have it in your thoughts.
01:06:28You will have it in your thoughts.
01:06:30You will have it in your thoughts.
01:06:31ź²½ģ°ģė might not become difficult.
01:06:32If possible would it take your fƤllt in your thoughts.
01:06:34Sergeant, would you do me the goodness to answer a question?
01:06:51If I can.
01:06:53Now that we are all safe, it may seem an impertinence.
01:06:57Yes, ma'am.
01:06:59Would you have ordered the boy killed?
01:07:02Yes, if I had to.
01:07:10Then you do believe one has his duty?
01:07:14Duty can mean a lot of things.
01:07:16So?
01:07:17Mostly it means looking things square in the face, and maybe forgetting the regulations,
01:07:22the rules.
01:07:24Very interesting, Sergeant.
01:07:27Gracias.
01:07:32Why are we so solemn?
01:07:36We should be happy.
01:07:38Most happy for you, Mrs. Sutler.
01:07:41Your husband will be waiting for you in San Miguel.
01:07:45Your whole life will have a new beginning.
01:07:47Sure, Mrs. Sutler.
01:07:48Like the natives say, muy verdad.
01:07:50She is for that.
01:07:53She is for that.
01:08:08Senora?
01:08:15Senora?
01:08:15All aboard, folks.
01:08:38We're having you in Tucson for supper.
01:08:40A palace hotel.
01:08:41Well, you can sit and lie in your flues with turtle soup, fried chicken, dingo berries,
01:08:46real bacon, powder bread, and all the pie with half-lubber meringue you can eat.
01:08:55You put me off my schedule, Sergeant.
01:08:58But you and the ladies welcome to ride with me anytime.
01:09:02It would be good to get more, son.
01:09:05It's real good.
01:09:11I found these on the seats, Sergeant.
01:09:13It must have fell out of your pocket.
01:09:15Thanks.
01:09:26I just want to say thank you.
01:09:29I think maybe I might have done some growing up on this trip.
01:09:32I don't even know your name.
01:09:35Please, I'd like to remember it.
01:09:38Jeff Bennett, man.
01:09:40Jeff Bennett.
01:09:41Thank you, Jeff.
01:09:45Well, good luck, General.
01:09:48You too, brother.
01:09:51If you got on your mind what I'm thinking, Senorita, you're going to be eating all the luck.
01:09:57Pain hearted never filled with flesh.
01:09:59Quinsabi.
01:10:02Yeah.
01:10:03Who knows?
01:10:04I don't suppose Fred knew just what stage we'd be on.
01:10:23Besides, we got in so late.
01:10:24My wife doesn't always meet me when I go home on furlough.
01:10:30I'll go to delivery.
01:10:32Hire a buck boy.
01:10:34Sergeant.
01:10:36You're coming with me.
01:10:37Please.
01:10:38Please.
01:10:38Please.
01:10:38Please.
01:10:38Please.
01:10:38Please.
01:10:42You were right to say the dress somehow.
01:11:00I'll let Maury.
01:11:04It'll go back.
01:11:05You're afraid?
01:11:23They didn't tell Fred about Keto.
01:11:25I see.
01:11:27Colonel Weaver asked me if I wanted him to know what...
01:11:31I thought it would be better if I were there when he finds her.
01:11:35Yeah.
01:11:37Better here.
01:11:38I was hoping you'd be waiting when the stage got in.
01:11:56I've been kind of mixed up, Cora.
01:11:59So much to think about.
01:12:05The Indian boy.
01:12:08Fred, all the way here, I've been trying to think of a way to tell you.
01:12:15Tell me what, Cora?
01:12:17He's mine, Fred.
01:12:18He's my child.
01:12:21I heard about it.
01:12:23But I wouldn't believe it.
01:12:25I know how hard it is for you to accept this all at once.
01:12:29You and the Indian natures?
01:12:30Yes.
01:12:38I just don't know why you had to bring the boy with you.
01:12:44He's my child.
01:12:45I couldn't live without him.
01:12:47You expect me to live with him?
01:12:50Well, how do you think I feel when I look at him?
01:12:54What about other people?
01:12:56What do I tell them?
01:12:57How do I even face him?
01:13:06You should have left him with his own kind, Cora.
01:13:10His own kind, isn't he?
01:13:13He's mine.
01:13:16Fred, I do understand how you feel, but...
01:13:19Can't we just try?
01:13:27Excuse me, Mr. Settler.
01:13:28What is it?
01:13:29What's the matter?
01:13:31My horse threw his shoe.
01:13:32I'd like to fix it before dark.
01:13:33I can't find the hoof knife.
01:13:49How long were you married when it happened?
01:14:07Nine years.
01:14:21We lived in Pennsylvania.
01:14:24I came out here first and homesteaded and...
01:14:27And I sent for her.
01:14:31She never got here.
01:14:32All those years, no child.
01:14:35Just didn't happen.
01:14:38So that's the way you're looking at it.
01:14:41Like I ought to be grateful to have any kind of son.
01:14:44Even one by a dirty Indian butcher.
01:14:46Well, that's one way of looking at it.
01:14:48Well, what other way is there?
01:14:51The boy gave her reason to live.
01:14:53And she's lived through an awful lot.
01:14:57Doesn't it count what I went through?
01:14:59What I'll have to go through from now on?
01:15:01I didn't say it was going to be easy.
01:15:03First thinking she was dead.
01:15:04And living this lonely, miserable life.
01:15:08And then she has to come home with this.
01:15:12I don't want to talk anymore.
01:15:13Boy, had his supper?
01:15:35Yes.
01:15:38He put a blanket on the floor for him to sleep on.
01:15:41Happy homecoming.
01:16:04Well, you're pretty lucky.
01:16:12You don't have to think things up.
01:16:14You just obey orders.
01:16:24Look, Cora.
01:16:26You don't want to do this thing to me.
01:16:28I don't want to hurt you, but...
01:16:35Well, can't we just try?
01:16:40He's such a little boy.
01:16:43He's not mine, Cora.
01:16:45Oh, Fred.
01:16:46I kept remembering once we had a good life.
01:16:51I was ready to forgive you about the Indian.
01:16:55Forgive me?
01:16:56But you had to go and bring his...
01:16:59Forgive me?
01:17:07What kind of a man do you think I am?
01:17:08She has no one else to turn to, Mr. Sutliff.
01:17:25Any reason for you to be nosy and in, soldier?
01:17:29No, is there?
01:17:30I guess my job here is done.
01:17:57Where are you going?
01:17:58Without my son, I have no place here.
01:18:02Yes, you have.
01:18:03Your place is here.
01:18:05You want it.
01:18:06You really want it.
01:18:09I'm sorry, Fred.
01:18:16I've got to get away from here.
01:18:18I'm her husband.
01:18:33She belongs to me.
01:18:36She doesn't belong to anyone now but the boy.
01:18:41Cora.
01:18:41Forgive me for coming back.
01:18:44For putting you through all this.
01:18:47You're not going to take her.
01:18:49You can take the boy, but not her.
01:18:52Is this how you're going to solve it, Mr. Sutliff?
01:19:02Shoot me and force her to stay?
01:19:06Then what do you do about the boy?
01:19:07Shoot him, too?
01:19:09Get in that wagon and leave by herself, soldier.
01:19:12You're not the kind of a manhood.
01:19:14You're not the kind of a manhood.
01:19:15You're not the kind of a manhood.
01:19:16You're not the kind of a manhood.
01:19:17You're not the kind of a manhood.
01:19:18You're not the kind of a manhood.
01:19:19You're not the kind of a manhood.
01:19:20You're not the kind of a manhood.
01:19:21You're not the kind of a manhood.
01:19:22You're not the kind of a manhood.
01:19:23Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:19:53Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:20:23With their leader gone, they're through.
01:20:33Good boy.
01:20:46Takes things the Indian way without yapping.
01:20:48I have relatives back east.
01:20:55I could go there.
01:20:57Is that what you want?
01:21:00No.
01:21:01I'm 47.
01:21:05Nearly 30 of that in the Army makes a man rough.
01:21:10I've got four months till the end of my last hitch.
01:21:14You could get a room in the settlement near the fort.
01:21:18Four months is not such a long spell.
01:21:24What about your family?
01:21:28Nobody's likely to get hurt there.
01:21:31Oh.
01:21:33Man gets defensive.
01:21:35Everybody in the fort trying to marry him off.
01:21:37If you invent a family and stick to it, it makes it a lot easier for everybody.
01:21:44I think I always knew.
01:21:48You did?
01:21:50Uh-huh.
01:21:51You've got to learn to speak English.
01:21:55I'm.
01:22:18I'm.