Rawhide is the name of the trail station at which takes place the action of this stunning and exciting movie. Four escaped convicts kidnap a stagecoach way station run by Tyrone Power and Edgar Buchanan and hold hostages to the passangers, Susan Hayward, while waiting for a shipment of gold. All of them are trapped and mistreated by the heinous outlaws.
Nice and A-grade western with splendid interpretations, thrills, drama and a breathtaking bang-up ending. The plot is plain, simple and claustrphobic, but the development is complex, including a couple of thrilling gunfights . It results to be a remake of "Show them no mercy" (1938). Main and support cast are frankly excellent with an abundance of great talent. Starring Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward are pretty well. Supported by very good secondaries such as Hugh Marlowe, Edgar Buchanan, George Tobias, Dean Jagger, Jeff Corey. Here Jack Elam steals the show at a first sizeable character as one of the evil cutthroats.
It packs an atmospheric and adequate cinematography in black and white by Milton Krasner. As well as moving and appropriate musical score by Sol Kaplan. Being competently produced by Sol Siegel and compellingly directed by Henry Hathaway. This great director was a good Hollywood professional and he here sustains interest enough by maintaining the claustrophobic tension very well and he stages some nice action scenes. He directed a lot of fiery Westerns, many of them starred by John Wayne as North to Alaska, The sons of Katie Elder, and Wayne's Oscar Winning : True grit. Furthermore : From hell to Texas, How the West was won, Nevada Smith, Five card stud, Shoot out, among others.
Nice and A-grade western with splendid interpretations, thrills, drama and a breathtaking bang-up ending. The plot is plain, simple and claustrphobic, but the development is complex, including a couple of thrilling gunfights . It results to be a remake of "Show them no mercy" (1938). Main and support cast are frankly excellent with an abundance of great talent. Starring Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward are pretty well. Supported by very good secondaries such as Hugh Marlowe, Edgar Buchanan, George Tobias, Dean Jagger, Jeff Corey. Here Jack Elam steals the show at a first sizeable character as one of the evil cutthroats.
It packs an atmospheric and adequate cinematography in black and white by Milton Krasner. As well as moving and appropriate musical score by Sol Kaplan. Being competently produced by Sol Siegel and compellingly directed by Henry Hathaway. This great director was a good Hollywood professional and he here sustains interest enough by maintaining the claustrophobic tension very well and he stages some nice action scenes. He directed a lot of fiery Westerns, many of them starred by John Wayne as North to Alaska, The sons of Katie Elder, and Wayne's Oscar Winning : True grit. Furthermore : From hell to Texas, How the West was won, Nevada Smith, Five card stud, Shoot out, among others.