An entertaining popcorn western enhanced by fine action sequences, appealing performers, nice location photography, and judicious use of 3D, Budd Boetticher’s Wings of the Hawk plays quite beautifully more than sixty years after it first appeared.
Wings of the Hawk (1953)
Released: 29 Mar 1954
Rated: Passed
Runtime: 81 min
Director: Budd Boetticher
Genre: Adventure, Romance, Western
Cast: Van Heflin, Julie Adams, Abbe Lane, George Dolenz
Writer(s): James E. Moser (screenplay), Gerald Drayson Adams (novel), Kay Lenard (adaptation)
Plot: During the Mexican revolution of 1910, an American prospector gets involved with the revolutionaries after a corrupt Mexican official confiscates his mine.
IMDB rating: 6.0
MetaScore: N/A
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