Sentences with phrase «war chief yellow»

The scene switches to a fort in New Mexico where Captain Joseph Blocker (Christian Bale), one of the staunchest anti-Native American fighters in the so - called «Indian Wars», is given the unenviable assignment of escorting the cancer - stricken Cheyenne war chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi) back to his home territory in Montana to die.

While based out of Fort Berringer, New Mexico, Joe is ordered by his commanding officer Colonel Abraham Biggs (Stephen Lang) to escort the long imprisoned Cheyenne war chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi)- a man whom Joe has a personal and bloody history with - to his home in the Valley of the Bears, Montana, now that Yellow Hawk is on the verge of dying from cancer.

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After announcing itself as a meditation on how the American soul has been forged by violence, the film begins in earnest when Joseph is tasked with releasing his most infamous prisoner — the cancerous Cheyenne war chief, Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi)-- and escorting the man back to the Valley of the Bears, so that he can be buried in his birthplace.

But his commander orders him to perform one last service: escorting Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi), a Comanche war chief who is now dying of cancer, and has received permission to take his family to their ancestral home in Montana to be at final piece.

Set in 1892, «Hostiles» is the story of army captain Joseph Blocker (Christian Bale) who's forced to reexamine who his real enemies are when tasked with escorting Cheyenne war chief, Chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi), back to his tribal chief, Chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi), back to his tribal Chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi), back to his tribal land.

A direct order from Washington lands on the nearly retired Captains lap, in which he must escort the dying Cheyenne War Chief, Yellow Hawk, to his home.