Directed by Budd Boeticher
Starring Van Heflin, Julia Adams, George Dolenz, Antonio Moreno, Noah Berry, Jr., Abbe Lane, Rodolfo Acosta, Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales, Lyle Talbot
Kino Lorber and the 3-D Film Archive are bringing Budd Boetticher’s Wings Of The Hawk (1953) to Blu-Ray with its 3-D and 1.85:1 framing intact. (It was the first film composed specifically for 1.85:1 exhibition.) A 2-D version is included.
It’s also a terrific picture, technology aside. Heflin’s great (or course), Julie Adams is beautiful (of course), and Boetticher, DP Clifford Stine and editor Russell Schoengarth deliver a solid, good-looking 50s Western with plenty of action. One complaint: why didn’t they put Nestor Paiva in there somewhere?
Also, the 3-D Woody Woodpecker “cartune” The Hypnotic Hick, made by U-I to play with Wings Of The Hawk, will be included (in 3-D).
Coming in 2020. I can’t tell you how excited I am about this one. Highly, highly recommended.
50 Westerns From The 50s. 
This will be a good release from Olive and probably better then the Sidonis release which I already have ,but I won’t be double dipping.If only I had of waited,but who’s to know what they’ll release.Anyway,I have MADIGAN and THE GUN RUNNERS on order which should arrive soon.
Sorry ,I mean’t Kino Lorber ,not Olive.
Great news, thanks Toby! Is it wrong that I’m almost as excited to see the Woody Woodpecker 3D short than I am to see the feature?
Do you have to have one of those special 3-D TVs to see this? I still use the blue and red glasses to watch any 3 D movie I have. I’d love to see these 3D releases if you could see them on normal TVs.
Yes, you need a 3D TV. You can always watch the 2D version included on these discs.