Eagle's Wing (1979) on Netflix
In antebellum Mexico, the trapper Pike and the Native American White Bull both want the white stallion Eagle's Wing. A stagecoach carrying a rich widow crosses the same desert.
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Plot summary
Three strands of story cross the same desert country in antebellum Mexico. Pike and Henry are two fur traders, waiting to meet the Native American band that trades with them. A war party of Native Americans is returning to its village and rides against a second band whose leader keeps a magnificent white Arabian stallion. White Bull tries to capture it, but the stallion is too fast. A stagecoach takes a rich widow and the other passengers, among them a priest, toward her family's hacienda. Mexican soldiers are garrisoned in the country the travelers and the two traders pass through.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Eagle's Wing (1979)
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- While director Anthony Harvey was away working on another film, Players, the money people behind Eagle's Wing came in and recut it, making a number of cuts and putting back things Harvey had cut out.
- Screenwriter John Briley said Rank, which owned the best West End cinemas, would not even put Eagle's Wing in a Rank cinema, placing it instead in a side-street house that had almost exclusively shown continental sex films.
- Director Anthony Harvey described the script as very thin and said the film has no dialogue at all except for the first ten minutes, between Harvey Keitel and Sam Waterston.
- In February 1980 the Rank Organisation reported that the losses on Eagle's Wing, The Lady Vanishes and The Riddle of the Sands would be £2-3 million, contributing to an overall loss for Rank that year of £1.5 million.
- Director Anthony Harvey and screenwriter John Briley sat down and wrote a script for about a month before going on location, just to make sense of the story.
