Rawhide (1951 film)

Rawhide is a 1951 Western film made by Twentieth CenturyFox. It was directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Samuel G. Engel from a screenplay by Dudley Nichols. The music score was by Sol Kaplan and the song A Rollin Stone by Lionel Newman. The cinematography was by Milton R. Krasner.

Tom Owens Tyrone Power is the cleancut and sophisticated gentlemen son of the Eastern Division Manager of the Overland Mail Company, J. C. Owens. His father decides he needs to learn the business from the ground up so sends Tom out west to a remote relay station, Rawhide Pass, to take lessons from the stationmaster, Sam Todd Edgar Buchanan, whom he has known for over forty years. Owens has received his pardon from his father, however, and is scheduled to return to civilization in one week. He cant wait.A takecharge and strongwilled woman named Vinnie Holt Susan Hayward and her very young niece Callie arrive on a coach on their way east. Miss Holts sister was killed in a bar brawl along with Callies father, Johnny, back in Vacaville, California, and she is taking Callie to her paternal grandparents in the east. Miss Holt is anxious to start a new job but as her stage gets ready to depart Rawhide after their dinner break and mule change the Cavalry arrives from the east with the news that four convicts escaped from Huntsville prison, held up a stagecoach that had passed through Rawhide earlier and killed the driver who was a friend of Sams. The Cavalry has learned that the convicts are after a gold shipment expected to pass through Rawhide the following day. The Cavalry intends to escort Miss Holts coach on its way east. However, per Company policy children may not ride a coach into a dangerous situation and when Miss Holt refuses the drivers command to leave Callie at the station in her words jibberjabber she is forcibly removed from the coach by Tom Owens Power. ........

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