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Rawhide - The Complete First Season (1959)
Starring: Eric Fleming, Clint Eastwood Director: Richard Whorf Rating: Not Rated
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Long before he became Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood starred as Rowdy Yates in the one-hour Western series that had the whole country singing "Rolling, rolling, rolling..." Clint is riveting as he develops the sly, steely persona that was soon to rocket him to movie stardom as the Man With No Name in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns. Rowdy and his trail boss battle a murderous gang of bandits in "Incident of the Tumbleweed Wagon." The wedding of Rowdy's Civil War buddy (Troy Donahue's TV debut) gets violently disrupted in "Incident at Alabaster Plain", while an overturned stage coach and a shadowy gunslinger spell trouble in "Incident With an Executioner".
Episodes:
1. Incident of the Tumbleweed Wagon
Two outlaws kill their lawman escort in Favor's camp, saddling the trail boss with the responsibility of bringing them in for trial.
2. Incident at Alabaster Plain
Looking for water, the drive arrives at a mission where Rowdy's wartime friend (they spent time together in a POW camp) is getting married. The bride's stepbrother, a murderer sixteen times over, has returned to claim his share of the family fortune.
3. Incident with an Executioner
A stage load of passengers being chased by the man with the black satchel wrecks. Favor takes them to his camp. The man is a hired executioner after someone from the stage or the herd.
4. Incident of the Widowed Dove
Rowdy tries to help Clovis leave her sheriff husband.
5. Incident On the Edge of Madness
On the drive north, the cowhands desert because they are still bitter about the Civil War. Gil and Rowdy try to get them to come back and discover that a woman is behind it. She and her cohorts are planning on setting up a new Confederacy.
6. Incident of the Power and the Plow
Gil Favor gets permission from rancher Jed Reston to drive his herd over Reston's land. He discovers, however, that Reston has a bigoted attitude toward Indians, particularly a local Comanche named Taslatch who wants to be a farmer and who's paid for a mail-order plow. (Reston's recently had his son, Matt, give Taslatch 15 lashes on a trumped-up rustling charge.) Favor earns Reston's enmity by siding with Taslatch. Tensions soon escalate until violence is set to erupt between the Comanches and local townspeople and Favor must take decisive steps to intervene.
7. Incident at Barker Springs
Brazo, a retired gunfighter, attempts to keep his kid brother from taking up the family business.
8. Incident West of Lano
Four stranded women provide a love interest and a complication for Favor. A freight hauler with a gunfighter says he's using the only river crossing first.
9. Incident of the Town in Terror
When Rowdy and two steers are thought to have anthrax, The only medical help is a young lady with two years of nursing school. Her town doesn't want anything to do with the drovers or the herd.
10. Incident of the Golden Calf
Brother Bent the newest drover sparks gold fever, when he flashes a huge nuggett.
11. Incident of the Coyote Weed
Banditos inside and outside threaten the herd and the drovers.
12. Incident of the Cubasco
The drive faces a formidable tasks climbing to a plateau known for it's high winds and dust storms. Favor hires Tom Bryan more for his wagon than the man. Tom sneaks a woman dressed in a bridal gown into the wagon. Jefferson Devereaux, a wealthy land owner, comes looking for a man and a woman, his wife, Jenny. Rowdy was a POW with Tom. He says Tom sold out. Jeff and forty men will be back in the morning for Tom and Jenny.
13. Incident of the Curious Street
Favor and Rowdy are looking for strays. They enter a deserted mining town. Matt Lucas is the caretaker. He says he's the only one there. Leaving they hear an organ. Mrs. Miller and her daughter, Angie, say Lucas and his son, Waldo, gunned down the stage coach driver, and is holding them hostage.
14. Incident of the Dog Days
Favor stops Talby from shooting Johnny Camber, who he says is Billy Carter, who killed his daughter. Clark accuses Carl Myers of being a trail camp thief and a card cheat. Favor decides to take the herd across the dry plain at the worst time of the year. The men begin to question Favor's judgment. Eventually all but six of his men quit.
15. Incident of the Calico Gun
Favor and Pete find Jenny Watson outside a burned cabin. Her parents who died of a sickness were burned with the cabin. Favor invites Jenny to ride along to Silver Junction. Jenny is in cahoots with three brothers to rob Favor of the drive's payroll.
16. Incident of the Misplaced Indians
Rowdy finds two indians dead outside a house. Amelia Spaulding is inside singing and making candy.
17. Incident of Fear in the Streets
When Pete is hurt by a steer, Gil and Rowdy try to find a doctor. They ride into a nearby town but end up as victims of a vicious gang which has taken over the town.
18. Incident Below the Brazos
Favor's welcome to Paradise Valley is a group of gun toting farmers warning the herd better not do any damage to their property. Lightning stampedes the remuda and kills farmer Ken Wade. His wife urges Eli to avenge her husband's death.
19. Incident of the Dry Drive
Jess Hode, a bitter ex-trailboss who the owners thought was too old, demands half of Favor's herd for the only water around. Jess' son stands by him but soon comes to see through his old man. Favor tries a couple other water holes but they are dry.
20. Incident of the Judas Trap
With wolves threatening the herd, Pete is sent to town to get a wolver and traps. None are available, but he meets his old flame, Nora Sage. She is later found strangled in her room. Brad Morgan, Medrina Wilcox's foreman also came to see her. Medrina has a herd but only one man. They pool herds. Brad was a wolver, and directs Favor's men in placing the traps. Brad toys with the affections of Nora, Medrina and her sister Paula. Favor lets the sheriff take Pete, but says he needs Morgan.
21. Incident in No Man's Land
Favor and Rowdy ride into a settlement of women to find out the source of explosions threatening to stampede the herd. They're told to go to the camp. It uses contract prison labor. The women are the wives and girlfriends of the convicts. Todd McCauley has one month to go, but Clement won't release him saying he knows where the money he stole is. Todd arranges a breakout. The convicts need horses and head for the drive.
22. Incident of a Burst of Evil
A badly beaten wild man, Bing, says that Comancheros are planning to take the herd. Rowdy befriends a woman, once a countess, now being held by the Comancheros. She offers a mirror for the kindness Rowdy has shown. Rowdy says he couldn't accept it. She sneaks it into his saddlebag. At a trading post the mirror is identified as one taken in a Comanche raid. Rowdy is thought to be a Comanchero and has to fight his way out. Rowdy goes to the Comanchero camp to get Louisa to back up his story and is caught. Loouisa tells Rowdy of the Comancheros plans. Bing was sent by the Comancheros to lead the drive to them.
23. Incident of the Roman Candles
Pete and Quince find young Davey Colby who says Indians killed his father and grandfather and carried off his mother. He is trying to reach his uncle in Eberle. Favor doubts his story. He hasn't heard of any Indians in the neighborhood. The Kimble County Sheriff tells Favor, there are no Colbys in Eberle and no Indians within 100 miles. Favor tells Pete some kids just find it easier to lie. Davey says he ran away from home to find his father, a bounty hunter. Favor tells Pete to take him home to his mother. After a couple of unsuccessful escape attempts, they ride up to Davey's home. The door is locked. Davey knocks. A woman answers and says she's never seen Davey before in her life. Pete says he understands and turns to leave. He gets a rifle leveled at him. Inside is Bodie whose knee was shot by Davey's father Sam. Bodie, Mooney and Harv are lying in wait for Sam to return home. |
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Starring:
Eric Fleming | Clint Eastwood | Sheb Wooley | Paul Brinegar | Steve Raines | Rocky Shahan | James Murdock | Robert Cabal | ...more
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Directed By:
Richard Whorf | Andrew V. McLaglen | Anton Leader | Bernard L. Kowalski | Bernard McEveety | Charles Marquis Warren | Christian Nyby | Don McDougall | Gene Fowler Jr. | George Sherman | George Templeton | Gerd Oswald | Harmon Jones | Harry Harris | Herschel Daugherty | Jack Arnold | Jesse Hibbs | Joseph Kane | Jus Addiss | Michael O'Herlihy | Murray Golden | Philip Leacock | R.G. Springsteen | Robert L. Friend | Sobey Martin | Stuart Heisler | Sutton Roley | Tay Garnett | Ted Post | Thomas Carr | Vincent McEveety
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Genre:
Action/Adventure, Family, Television/TV Series, Westerns
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DVD Release Date:
July 25, 2006
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Format: Region 1
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Rating:
Not Rated
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Year:
1959
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Regional Coding:
R1:
Will only play on North American Region 1 or multi-region DVD players.
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Number of Discs:
7
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Subtitles:
English
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Screen Ratio:
Full Screen Edition - 1.33:1
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English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) | |
Running Time:
1110 minutes
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Studio:
Paramount
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Catalogue Number:
887804
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UPC/Barcode Number:
097368878044
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Black & White: Yes
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Closed-Captioned: Yes
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- Bonus Episode From Season 2
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