'Air Hawk' is a stunt film, in which the plot exists largely as an excuse for the stunt sequences. Fortunately, the stunts are enjoyable enough to justify this structure. 'Air Hawk' looks and plays a lot like those feature-length assemblages of movie serials.
CONTAINS SPOILERS. Al Wilson stars as Al Parker, alias the Air Hawk, who appears to be some sort of airborne private eye. (This movie has the weak logic of serials, too.) He's on the trail of Robert McLeod and his gang of thieves, who are plundering a platinum mine. When John Ames, the mine foreman, tries to stop McLeod's men, they kill him. Ames's beautiful daughter Edith tries to keep the mine going in his stead. (Surely a mine foreman is merely an employee, with no personal stake in the enterprise?) Parker and Edith fall in love, but happiness cannot be theirs until the final reel. Meanwhile, the crooks kidnap Edith, and Parker has a fistfight with McLeod up in the clouds, on the wing of an old-fashioned aeroplane. And of course, Parker solves the murder.
As I said, this whole movie exists just for the stunt sequences, which are well done, but the story feels like just a bunch of stunts strung together. A few witty intertitles are credited to Della M King, whom IMDb credit as the film editor. The decision to make the McGuffin a platinum mine, rather than a gold or silver mine, is interesting but ultimately irrelevant. I'll rate this movie 3 points out of 10.
CONTAINS SPOILERS. Al Wilson stars as Al Parker, alias the Air Hawk, who appears to be some sort of airborne private eye. (This movie has the weak logic of serials, too.) He's on the trail of Robert McLeod and his gang of thieves, who are plundering a platinum mine. When John Ames, the mine foreman, tries to stop McLeod's men, they kill him. Ames's beautiful daughter Edith tries to keep the mine going in his stead. (Surely a mine foreman is merely an employee, with no personal stake in the enterprise?) Parker and Edith fall in love, but happiness cannot be theirs until the final reel. Meanwhile, the crooks kidnap Edith, and Parker has a fistfight with McLeod up in the clouds, on the wing of an old-fashioned aeroplane. And of course, Parker solves the murder.
As I said, this whole movie exists just for the stunt sequences, which are well done, but the story feels like just a bunch of stunts strung together. A few witty intertitles are credited to Della M King, whom IMDb credit as the film editor. The decision to make the McGuffin a platinum mine, rather than a gold or silver mine, is interesting but ultimately irrelevant. I'll rate this movie 3 points out of 10.
