Rawhide (1938 film)

Rawhide is a 1938 Western film starring Lou Gehrig and made by Twentieth CenturyFox Film Corporation. The movie was directed by Ray Taylor and produced by Sol Lesser from a screenplay by Jack Natteford and Daniel Jarrett. The cinematography was by Allen Q. Thompson. This is the only Hollywood movie in which baseball great Lou Gehrig made a screen appearance, playing himself as a vacationing ballplayer visiting his sister Peggy played by Evalyn Knapp on a ranch in the fictional town of Rawhide, Montana. The film remains available on DVD and VHS formats.

In the opening scene, Lou Gehrig is surrounded by a group of reporters at Grand Central Terminal in New York City, where he is about to take a train to his sisters ranch out west in Rawhide. Proclaiming that he is through with baseball, he tells the sceptical newsmen that he wants the peace and quiet of the cowboy life.Gehrig plays an easygoing dude rancher, whose selfdeprecating humor is displayed the first time he attempts to ride a horse. As he timidly approaches his steed, a ranch hand urges, Jus walk right up to him like ya wasnt afraid, to which Gehrig deadpans, I couldnt be that deceitful. ........

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