 Independent producer Herman Wohl (qv) hired Paramount film editor  Edward Dmytryk (qv) to direct this 1935 western, marking Dmytryks  first directing job. It was reissued in 1937 by another independent  producer, J.D. Kendis (qv), as a Jay Dee Kay Production and with  the title changed to "The Trail of the Hawk". Until 1937 it was  known as "The Hawk". To confuse matters even further, it was  acquired in 1949 by Ramblin Tommy Scott (qv), a touring tent show  proprietor covering most of the southeastern and southwestern United  States, and he had some footage shot of himself, his talking doll  Luke McLuke and family members Sandra Scott (VII) (qv) and  Frankie Scott (qv) performing some musical numbers and inserted  that into the footage of the original, taking care to now show it,  via a new pressbook and posters, starring himself and his relatives.  The film was then presented at grindhouse theatres across the  country where Scott and his troupe appeared live on stage before and  between showings. Scott and his traveling vaudeville show stayed on  the road for three more decades presenting their version of the  old