Wings of the Hawk
| Wings of the Hawk | |
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| Directed by | Budd Boetticher |
| Produced by | Aaron Rosenberg |
| Written by | James E. Moser |
| Starring |
Van Heflin Julia Adams |
| Music by | Frank Skinner |
| Cinematography | Clifford Stine |
| Edited by | Russell Schoengarth |
Production company |
Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc. |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release dates | August 26, 1953 |
Running time | 80 min |
| Country |
 United States |
| Language | English |
Wings of the Hawk (1953) is a 3-D Technicolor Western film, set during the Mexican Revolution, starring Van Heflin and Julia Adams and directed by Budd Boetticher.
Plot
Mexico, 1911: An expatriate American known as "Irish" Gallagher joins up with Mexican revolutionaries when the mine where he and partner Marco have just struck gold is seized by Colonel Paco Ruiz, a corrupt official who rules the province. Marco is killed by Ruiz.
A band of rebels saves Irish from certain death, with a particularly brave one, a woman, Raquel Noriega, being wounded by gunfire. The rebels aren't sure about Irish so they take him back to their leader, Arturo Torres. As they talk, Raquel faints from her injury, and Irish offers to remove the bullet.
Raquel is engaged to marry Arturo. Her sister Elena has been kidnapped. When they go search for the sister, Raquel and Irish are taken prisoner by Ruiz and locked in a cell. Elena is not a captive after all and says she intends to marry Ruiz. She mistakenly trusts the villainous Ruiz, who coldly executes the mother of one of Arturo's loyal rebels, Tomas.
Irish and Raquel are broken out of jail by the rebels, but Arturo is killed. Irish, realizing how much Ruiz values the gold in the mine, booby-traps it with dynamite and sets off the explosions while Tomas kills Ruiz to avenge his mother's death. When asked by Raquel why he destroyed his own mine, Irish says there is something he loves more, and they kiss.
Cast
- Van Heflin as Irish Gallagher
- Julia Adams as Raquel (Noriega)
- Abbe Lane as Elena (Noriega)
- George Dolenz as Colonel (Paco) Ruiz
- Noah Beery Jr. as (Pasquel) Orozco
- Rodolfo Acosta as Arturo (Torres)
- Antonio Moreno as Father Perez
- Pedro Gonzalez as Gonzalez Tomas
- Paul Fierro as Carlos
- Mario Siletti as Marco
- Rico Alaniz as Captain Gomez
- Rosa Turich as Concha
External links
- Wings of the Hawk at the TCM Movie Database
- Wings of the Hawk at the Internet Movie Database
- Wings of the Hawk at American Film Institute