The Hunting of the Hawk [SEP] cast member
The Hunting of the Hawk
The Hunting of the Hawk is a 1917 American silent mystery film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring William Courtenay. It was distributed by Pathé Exchange.
It is an incomplete surviving film with reels in the Library of Congress and National Archives of Canada (Ottawa).
Cast.
- William Courtenay as Desselway
- Marguerite Snow as Diana Curran
- Robert Clugston as Wrenshaw
hunt, due to the exemption in the Hunting Act for falconry. Many experts, such as the Hawk Board, deny that any bird of prey can reasonably be used in the British countryside to kill a fox which has been flushed by (and is being chased by) a pack of hounds.
Procedure.
The hunt is often the setting for many social rituals, but the hunting itself begins when hounds are "cast" or put into rough or brushy areas called "coverts", where foxes often lay up