THE HAWK OF POWDER RIVER
1948

Starring Eddie Dean and Jennifer Holt

Eddie Dean isn't the most recognizable cowboy movie star today, but his importance to the genre consists in his being the first to appear in a series of films in color back in the 1940's. Others had appeared in color films, like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, but Dean was the first to do a series wherein he appeared as the same character, using his own name. So the anomaly here is that 'Hawk' is a black and white picture from Producers Releasing Corporation, made after his color series, also produced by PRC.

Jennifer Holt (The Hawk) had a brother named Tim who also did a series of westerns for RKO. 

PLOT:
A band of outlaws led by a mysterious villain known only as The Hawk robs and kills at will, terrorizing the countryside. What nobody knows is that the Hawk is actually a young woman named Vivian, the beautiful niece of a wealthy local rancher. She operates with impunity using her uncle's ranch. When her uncle dies she stand to inherit her Uncle's ranch. However, the Uncle had a daughter..

CAST
Eddie Dean ... Deputy Marshal Eddie Dean
White Cloud ... Eddie's Horse
Roscoe Ates ... Soapy Jones
Jennifer Holt ... Vivian Chambers aka The Hawk
June Carlson ... Carole Chambers
Eddie Parker ... Mike Cochrane, the Lawyer
Terry Frost ... Henchman Mitchell
Lane Bradford ... Henchman Cooper
Carl Mathews ... Henchman
Ted French ... Henchman Carson
Steve Clark ... Bill Chambers
Tex Palmer ... Stagecoach-Driver Charlie
Andy Parker ... Cowhand, Guitar Player
The Plainsmen ... Cowhands / Musicians

Director: Ray Taylor

RUNNING TIME: 54 MIN