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Region: A
MSRP: $29.95
The Production: 3.5/5
An entertaining popcorn western enhanced by fine action sequences, appealing performers, nice location photography, and judicious use of 3D, Budd Boetticherâs
Wings of the Hawk plays quite beautifully more than sixty years after it first appeared. While its narrative may be the standard story of heroes against corrupt officials featuring a rather predictable triangle romantic relationship at its center, these mundane elements give the movie a comfortable feeling and allow its unusual three-dimensional photography and well-tuned stirring moments to lure an audience in and hold them in its grip.
When corrupt federal Mexican official Colonel Ruiz (George Dolenz) claims Irish Gallagherâs (Van Heflin) profitable gold mine for himself, Gallagher is thrust into the countryside where insurrectionists led by Arturo Torres (Rodolfo Acosta) and his girl friend Raquel Noriega (Julia Adams) save his life but insist they donât trust