Hawk of the Hills (1929)
Hawk of the Hills (1927), a ten episode serial, re-edited into a five-reel feature length version released in 1929. Newhall, California. A band of Indians led by the half-breed 'The Hawk' terrorizes prospectors in a valley. When the old prospector Clyde Selby hits the mother lode, The Hawk plans to kidnap his pretty blond daughter Mary Selby. This kidnapping actually proves one of the lesser of the perils faced by the poor Mary. Laramie, a government agent, wants with the help of his friendly Shoshone Indian friends to extricate the damsel-in-distress.
- Date of release
- 1929-03-16
- TMDB
- 5.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 58m
- Genres
- Western
- Director
- Spencer Gordon Bennet
Casting
- Allene Ray — Mary Selby
- Walter Miller — Laramie
- Jack Ganzhorn — Henry Selby
- Frank Lackteen — The Hawk
- Paul Panzer — Manson
- Wally Oettel — Shorty
- Harry Semels — Sheckard
- Jack Pratt — Colonel
- J. Parks Jones — Lieutenant
- Frederick Dana — Larry
- John T. Prince — The Hermit
- Whitehorse
Interesting facts
Hawk of the Hills is a 1927 American silent Western film serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet. The serial was edited into a sound feature in 1929. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.
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