The Eagle's Brood

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William Boyd and Joan Woodbury in The Eagle's Brood (1935)

When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.

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6.6/10

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William Boyd

Hop-Along Cassidy

James Ellison

Johnny Nelson
(as Jimmy Ellison)

William Farnum

El Toro

George 'Gabby' Hayes

Spike -
(as George Hayes)

Addison Richards

Big Henry

Joan Woodbury

Dolores
(as Nana Martinez)

Frank Shannon

Mike

Dorothy Revier

Dolly

Paul Fix

Steve

Al Lydell

John Merton

George Mari

Pablo Chavez

Juan Torena

Esteban Chavez

Henry Sylvester

Sheriff

Alfredo Berumen

Barfly
(uncredited)

Buck Bucko

Vaquero
(uncredited)

Roy Bucko

Vaquero
(uncredited)

Jim Corey

Barfly
(uncredited)

Director
- Howard Bretherton
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Trivia
This film's first documented telecast occurred Monday 9 July 1945 on New York City's pioneer television station WNBT (Channel 1); on Monday 23 June 1947 it was seen again on WCBS (Channel 2). At this time it was under the control of Sherman S. Krellberg's Goodwill Pictures, who had re-released it theatrically and was now picking up a little extra revenue from an occasional television broadcast. In September 1948 it would join the rest of its brethren in William Boyd's Hopalong Cassidy movie package, which would become a popular nationally syndicated movie series for many years to come.

Quotes
Bill 'Hop-a-long' Cassidy: I'm sorry.
El Toro: You mean to stop me?
Bill 'Hop-a-long' Cassidy: You're El Toro, ain't you?
El Toro: Oh, Senor, what I have been I have been. But now I have no quarrel with the law. Now it is not El Toro the bandit who speaks, but a poor troubled old man who asks you to be kind. Oh, Senor, for the first time in his life, El Toro is begging a favor. Please, please let me go on.
Bill 'Hop-a-long' Cassidy: You wouldn't have a chance. Every peace officer in the country's lookin' for ya.
El Toro: I know that, Senor. But the little boy, he's in great danger. I go to him...
Bill 'Hop-a-long' Cassidy: El Toro! Get back where you belong!
El Toro: But Senor! You do not understand. It is another life, a poor, helpless, little boy.
Bill 'Hop-a-long' Cassidy: Get goin' back across the border.
[Hoppy's stone face breaks into a reassuring smile]
Bill 'Hop-a-long' Cassidy: I'll bring that little boy back to you.
El Toro: Thank you.

Connections
Edited into Danger Trail (1951)

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Cielito Lindo
(uncredited)
Written by Quirino Mendoza
Played in the saloon

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7/10

well-written narrow small plot

This is one of the best Hopalong Cassidy movies I have seen, and it is also most unusual for a Hoppy movie. Mainly it has a small narrow plot that drives the action every step of the way. The other Hoppy movies are more like epics with large forces of horsemen on each side; usually the bad guys slip up at the end which unleashes a furious battle of riders. Here it is more like a well-tuned detective mystery with every little discovery initiating a counter move.

On one side you have several bad guys, led by Big Henry, who murdered El Toro's (a famous retired Mexican bandit) son during a gold shipment robbery. They warn Gabby Hayes to stay quiet about the son and the gold passing their way, and in doing so learn that there was El Toro's grandson there who must have witnessed the murder-robbery and who has vanished. So the bad guys set about to locate the kid and kill him.

On the other side, Dolores, an honest dance hall girl, finds the kid in the woods. She decides to ask her boss, Big Henry, to help return the kid to his grandfather in Mexico, but before she can open her mouth, she overhears Big Henry discussing his part in the robbery-murder. So she hides the kid in the woods and writes a letter to El Torro to find her and get his grandson.

El Torro, on his way to Dolores, bumps into lawman Hoppy, saves Hoppy's life, and ends up giving Hoppy Dolores' letter so Hoppy will find the kid and bring him to El Torro (payment for saving Hoppy's life).

By now, Big Henry becomes wise to Dolores and kills her. Both the bad guys and Hoppy are looking for the kid. I won't say more about the intricate plot.

Other pluses for the movie: wonderful scenery and cinema photography; lack of comic side kick and cornball humor; and James Ellison as Hoppy's best sidekick.