Joel McCrea
Sgt. Clovis Hook
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Trooper Hook is a 1957 American Western film directed by Charles Marquis Warren and starring Joel McCrea as the title character and Barbara Stanwyck as the woman he frees from the Indians. The fact that during her captivity she has had a son by a much-feared chief makes her situation very difficult.
With Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Earl Holliman, Edward Andrews. When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.
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After a band of Indians kill a group of soldiers, Sergeant Hook captures them and their leader Nanches. Among the prisoners is Nanches' son and the boy's white mother captured by them nine years earlier. Hook's assignment is to escort the mother and son to the woman's husband.
Trooper Hook, an independently produced western from 1957, tapped into themes that were increasingly in the air in the 1950s in such films as Broken Arrow (1950), The Searchers (1956) and Two Rode Together (1961). Though it begins with a battle between a renegade band of Apaches and a cavalry troop, the film is less about the spectacle of ...
May 22, 2016 · Joel McCrea plays Trooper Hook, a sergeant who mounts a successful attack on the Indian camp of feared Apache chief Nanchez. When the dust settles, Nanchez is his prisoner and Hook discover a white woman (Barbara Stanwyck) and her half-breed son — Nanchez’s son, Quito — among the survivors.
Trooper Hook. Wanted for killing a squadron of soldiers, Apache Chief Nanchez (Rudolfo Acosta) is finally captured by Sgt. Clovis Hook (Joel McCrea), who discovers among Nanchez's prisoners Cora...
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