The Hawk's Nest
1928 film
- May 27, 1928 (1928-05-27)
The Hawk's Nest is a 1928 American film directed by Benjamin Christensen. It is believed to be lost. It was released by First National Pictures and stars husband and wife Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon.[1][2]
Plot
The title of The Hawk's Nest comes from the speakeasy around which most of the action revolves. Two bootleggers, played by Milton Sills and Mitchell Lewis, quarrel over a dancer (Doris Kenyon) while a political assassination plot.
Cast
- Milton Sills - The Hawk/John Finchley
- Doris Kenyon - Madelon Arden
- Sōjin Kamiyama - Sojin
- Montagu Love - Dan Daugherty
- Mitchell Lewis - James Kent
- Stuart Holmes - Barney McGuire
- James Bradbury Jr. - Gangster(uncredited)
Preservation status
- No prints survive, it is now lost.[3][4]
References
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
- ^ The Hawk's Nest at silentera.com
- ^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:..The Hawk's Nest
- ^ The Hawk's Nest at Arne Anderson's Lost Film Files: ..lost First National Pictures - 1928
External links
- The Hawk's Nest at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- The Hawks Nest at IMDb
- The Hawk's Nest at the TCM Movie Database
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Films directed by Benjamin Christensen
- The Mysterious X (1914)
- Blind Justice (1916)
- Häxan (1922)
- His Wife, The Unknown (1923)
- The Woman Who Did (1925)
- The Devil's Circus (1926)
- Mockery (1927)
- The Hawk's Nest (1928)
- The Haunted House (1928)
- Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
- House of Horror (1929)
- Children of Divorce (1939)
- The Child (1940)
- Come Home with Me (1941)
- Lady with the Light Gloves (1942)
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