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Watch: Rawhide 1951 123movies, Full Movie Online – Vinnie Holt, a single woman travelling with her toddler niece, becomes stranded at Rawhide, a desert stagecoach stop managed by stationmaster Sam Todd and his assistant Tom Owens. Owens is quickly impressed by Vinnie’s independent self-confidence. Jim Zimmerman, a fugitive murderer from Huntsville Prison disguised as a Deputy, and three other ruthless escapees take over the station, intent on robbing the next day’s gold shipment. After murdering Sam, Zimmerman knows they must keep Tom alive in order to complete their plans. Owens does not correct Zimmmerman’s assumption that Vinnie is his wife, correctly sensing that the misconception might be the key to her survival as well..
Plot: Not a Rowdy Yates in sight in this western set in a stop over for the California to St Louis mail stagecoach run. The two staff are warned that four dangerous outlaws are in the area, and together with a female stage passenger and her baby they wait patiently for the word to go round that these men have been caught. Can you guess where the outlaws decide to hide out while they plan a large gold robbery? What follows is a film that concentrates on small details (like attempts to slip a warning note to a passing stage, or to reach a hidden gun that the bad guys don’t know about) as the captives try anything to get away from the outlaws.
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**_Western noir with Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward and Hugh Marlowe_**

Four outlaws take captive the residents of a way station in southern Wyoming (Power, Hayward and Edgar Buchanan) while waiting for a stage with a gold shipment. Marlowe plays the head thug while Jack Elam is on hand as his psychotic subordinate.

“Rawhide” (1951) is a B&W Western that influenced future ones, like “Hangman’s Knot” (1952), “The Tall T” (1956), “Day of the Outlaw” (1959), “Ride Lonesome” (1959), “Comanche Station” (1960) and “Apache Uprising” (1965). It ranks with the best of these.

If you remove the opening and closing scenes, which are understandably passé, “Rawhide” holds up in the modern day as a psychological adult Western that’s film noir-ish and realistic. While some people favor B&W, I don’t (although I can roll with it), and would love to see a colorized version.

Susan is a highlight, looking her best along with convincing spunkiness. Meanwhile Power is a quality protagonist, just a regular guy suddenly caught up in a life-or-death situation.

The film runs 1 hour, 29 minutes, and was shot at Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, and nearby Olancha, which are located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in central California, about an hour’s drive from the Nevada border and 200 miles north of Hollywood.

GRADE: B

Desperate Siege.

Rawhide is directed by Henry Hathaway and written by Dudley Nichols. It stars Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Jack Elam, George Tobias, Dean Jagger and Edgar Buchanan. Music is by Sol Kaplan and Lionel Newman and cinematography by Milton Krasner.

A stagecoach station employee and a stranded woman traveller and her baby niece find themselves held hostage by four escaped convicts intending to rob the next day’s gold shipment.

A Western remake of 1935 crime film Show Them No Mercy, Rawhide is the embodiment of a solid Western production. Beautifully photographed in black and white by Krasner, smoothly performed by a strong cast of actors and seamlessly directed by the astute Hathaway, it builds the hostage plot slowly, tightening the screws of character development a bit at a time, and it unfolds in a blaze of glory come film’s end.

Characterisations are always interesting, if a bit conventional to anyone who has watched a lot of Oaters. Power is of course our hero in waiting and Hayward is spunky and feisty, I wonder if they will get together romantically? The four convicts are your typical scuzzy types, with Marlowe dominating the screen as the intelligent leader saddled with cohorts he really doesn’t care for, while Elam is wonderfully vile as a lecherous loose cannon.

The thematics of greed, sexual hostility and jeopardy for Hayward and child keep the pot boiling nicely, so suspense is a constant, and some thought has gone into the writing as regards the convict group dynamic. Sadly Kaplan’s musical score is quite often cheese laden, even ridiculously jolly and not at one with the noirish thriller conventions of the story. But regardless of irritating musical interludes, this is a very good Oater and comfortably recommended to Western fans who want more than your standard shoot em’ up B pictures. 7.5/10

Jack Elam at His Creepiest
Watched this again on the new DVD released & all I can say is WOW, I was impressed. This film has vaulted into my top 20 Westerns.

First of all from beginning to end its hitting on all cylinders. This is a Stage Station film in the tradition of “The Tall T” & “Comanche Station” of the later Bud Boetticher/Randolf Scott Ranown series, all of the action takes place in the stage station and its immediate surroundings.

The opening sequences of a stagecoach crossing the rugged barren wilderness including shots of it passing through snowbound passes are just spectacular. The Black & White cinematography is gorgeous, and add to that the historically accurate use of a team of mules pulling it makes this film one of the best portrayals of stage travel I’ve seen. Even the stagecoach itself is adorned with a “headlight” type lantern for night travel.

This is one of those films where you learn some bits of Western lore, its a good example of what was prevalent in that “golden age” of the Western 1950 -1971 when the audience through both films like this and the abondanza of Westerns on TV were inundated with things western where you were in the aggregate going to a sort of “Western University”. Its a knowledge that is getting lost now and a good example is the illogical stupidity and implausible scenarios in the recent remake of 3:10 to Yuma.

But I’ve been digressing. Lets get back to Rawhide.

Care is also taken to show how the arriving team of mules is changed out for a fresh team. For those who are not familiar with western staglines most stage stops “stations” were located between 15 to 20 miles apart so that fresh teams could replace the arriving team. Each tandem of driver & shotgun made a run of about 100 miles a day, so they would go through between 5-7 stage stops in a shift. At some stage stations they had lunch or dinner for the passengers, All the aspect of working a stage station was depicted spot on. The set is perfect.

Dir Henry Hathaway does an impressive job in this film, his shots and compositions are beautiful & all the actors are convincing. This film boasts Edgar Buchanan’s finest performance as Stationmaster Sam Todd, and Jack Elam is his creepiest as Treviss, Tyrone Power is Tom Owens, Susan Hayward as Vinne Holt a tough ex-saloon singer turned protector/surrogate mother of her dead sisters daughter, Hugh Marlow as the gang leader, George Tobias as Gratz, and a great performance by Dean Jagger as the slow on the uptake “one horse horse thief” Yancy. Its got a very well integrated low key un-intrusive to the story “love interest” between Power & Hataway a good example of they way it should be handled in all Westerns.

This film should be in anybodies Western Collection, 8/10 or better.

Nailing-biting western thriller
Tyrone Power hasn’t acting in many westerns – swashbuckling and adventure films are more his forte – but this is the one where he plays a stagecoach stop employee, who along with Susan Hayward ( she’s quite intense here) is at the mercy of four outlaws headed by the cold, but educated Zimmerman ( Hugh Marlowe). They are waiting for a gold bullion shipment, but while they wait at the stop they keep a real eye on their captives. Marlowe in particular is sharp, not failing to oversee every potential ploy his captives are trying to make to escape. Jack Elam, who steals the show as an unhinged gang member, is the weakest link in that regard with his libido getting the better of him – he has a leering eye for Hayward. Noirish elements abound in this Henry Hathaway directed western, the stark location and the grim characterisation adds to the suspense. Also the fact Power plays an ordinary guy – and not a gunfighter – is a winning factor. All he has his wits to try and overcome this dilemma- but is that enough? Watch this taut nail-biter to find out.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 29 min (89 min), 1 hr 27 min (87 min) (FMC Library Print)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Drama, Romance, Western
Director Henry Hathaway
Writer Dudley Nichols
Actors Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe
Country United States
Awards 3 wins
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory 20th Century-Fox Studio Laboratory, USA
Film Length 2,373 m (9 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm