Fish Hawk (1980)

FISH HAWK A Young Boy Helps an Indian Regain His Self-Respect Will Sampson (One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Outlaw Josey Wales) is Fish Hawk, an Osage Indian whose self-respect is drowning in a sea of whiskey until he befriends young Corby Boggs (Charles Fields). Having lost his wife and son to smallpox many years ago, Fish Hawk gets by on odd jobs for which he’s usually paid with a jug, and Deut Boggs (Don Francks) hires him to hunt down a bear that’s killing his stock. Giving up whiskey after it costs him the dog that was his only companion, Fish Hawk spends the winter with the Boggses, but when a wild boar ravages the countryside it puts his friendship with Corby to the test. Blanche Hanalis, who developed the Emmy Award-winning series Little House on the Prairie for television, adapted this family drama, filmed in the beautiful Canadian wild, from Mitchell Jayne’s novel Old Fish Hawk. WILL SAMPSON * DON FRANCKS * CHARLES FIELDS * MARY PIRIE CHRIS WIGGINS and featuring GEOFFREY BOWES as Towsack Charlie Executive Producers EDGAR J. SCHERICK STANLEY CHASE and DANIEL H. BLATT Produced by JON SLAN Directed by DONALD SHEBIB Screenplay by BLANCHE HANALIS From the novel Old Fish Hawk by MITCHELL JAYNE Approximately 95 minutes Color

Fish Hawk Movie

I had owned this movie before and loaned it out, never to see it again. This copy was in great shape. This is an older movie that is sure to capture your heart. Great movie for children and adults alike. December 12, 2008

Fish hawk

Fish hawk is a wonderful movie about an Indian who goes back his people after sobering up. Will Sampson is the only actor who could give this role true feeling. It is the first movie to cast an Indian to be the central character and main star. Worth having in your home DVD movie library. December 9, 2007

Great Movie

I Liked this movie but it had to many stero types. Me as a Native Indian it really bugged me. There are some Native Indians who are drunks but not alot. I liked it but not the stero types. January 18, 2005

very good family film

my husband and i both thought the movie to be very heart warming. it was an exceptional down to earth type real life portrayal of some of the way things were in that era. we do not feel it degraded the native americans in any way quite the opposite in our opinion. June 20, 2003

Fish Hawk

As a Native American, I was very displeased with the sterotyped negative image presented by the character Fish Hawk. Once again, the portrayal of a Native American as "a drunken Indian" is set forth in the yet another film. The usual portrayal of Native Americans in film is that of being blood-thirsty, savage, or ignorant. Films also portray Native Americans as being noble savages, vanishing, or one-with-earth individuals. This film was no exception! Hawk Fish was raised by white people according to the narrative in the film yet at the film's end, he walks off into the setting sun fully dressed in his Indian regalia. The film was offensive. October 29, 2001

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