The Eagle and the Hawk

The first of four films that John Payne and Rhonda Fleming made together, the others being Crosswinds (1951), Tennessee's Partner (1955), and Slightly Scarlet (1956).

John Payne (I)'s Capt. Croyden character and much of the cast are armed with .45-cal. Colt 1873 SAA "Peacemaker" revolvers. The story is set in 1863, a full ten years before the model was introduced by Colt. The handgun a Texas Ranger and a Union Army officer should be carrying would more than likely have been the Colt 1860 Army, a Civil War-era "cap-and-ball" pistol, yet the gun belts worn by the actors have bullet loops full of .45-cal. "Long" Colt cartridges.