The Last Trail (1921)
Western | November 1921
Cast:
Maurice B. Flynn , Eva Novak, Wallace Beery [ More ]Director:
Emmett J. FlynnWriters:
Jules Furthman, Paul SchofieldCinematographer:
Lucien AndriotProduction Company:
Fox Film Corp.Director Emmett Flynn was filming the last scenes, according to the 2 Jul 1921 Motion Picture News.
The 23 Jul 1921 Motion Picture News reported that Zane Grey's The Last Trail would be released under a new title, The Night Hawk, and that the negative had been shipped. Ultimately, however, Fox kept the original title.
For information on other film adaptations of Zane Grey's novel, please consult the entry for the 1932 Fox production The Golden West, directed by David Howard and starring George O'Brien in AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40). ...
Director Emmett Flynn was filming the last scenes, according to the 2 Jul 1921 Motion Picture News.
The 23 Jul 1921 Motion Picture News reported that Zane Grey's The Last Trail would be released under a new title, The Night Hawk, and that the negative had been shipped. Ultimately, however, Fox kept the original title.
For information on other film adaptations of Zane Grey's novel, please consult the entry for the 1932 Fox production The Golden West, directed by David Howard and starring George O'Brien in AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40).
The successful operations of a lone bandit known as "The Night Hawk" terrorize a frontier town, and when a stranger arrives riding a fine horse, suspicions are aroused and he is mistaken for the criminal. Winifred, who is engaged to dam engineer William Kirk, shelters the stranger from the sheriff, but Kirk has him arrested. Kirk decides to steal the company payroll and dynamite the dam; he accomplishes these acts but is captured by the stranger, who is revealed to be a company agent detailed to investigate ...
The successful operations of a lone bandit known as "The Night Hawk" terrorize a frontier town, and when a stranger arrives riding a fine horse, suspicions are aroused and he is mistaken for the criminal. Winifred, who is engaged to dam engineer William Kirk, shelters the stranger from the sheriff, but Kirk has him arrested. Kirk decides to steal the company payroll and dynamite the dam; he accomplishes these acts but is captured by the stranger, who is revealed to be a company agent detailed to investigate Kirk.
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