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Released: May 29, 2007 |
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The tale of Gil Favor, the trail boss, as he drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
Description of Rawhide - The Second Season, Vol. 1:
It has the indisputably greatest TV theme song ever, not to mention the young Clint Eastwood in a starring role, but if that's all you know about Rawhide, then this four-disc, 16-episode set, the first of two expected volumes from the 1959-60 season, will likely be a revelation. Like many series of its ilk, and other ilks as well, Rawhide combines elements of action, drama, humor, and a little romance. But this is a horse opera of a different color. The action is muted; there's little in the way of gunplay, a lot of scenes are fairly talky, and even though the show is nominally about an endless cattle drive, Eastwood's Rowdy Yates (who appeared in all 217 episodes produced during an eight-year run) and the other hands (including the gruff but righteous trail boss Gil Favor, played by Eric Fleming, and the cook Wishbone, amusingly rendered by Paul Brinegar) don't spend a whole lot of time tending to their cattle, often finding themselves distracted by the turbulent personal lives of the folks they encounter along the way. In fact, while it may be a Western, the show emphasizes characters over cows: the cruel ranch owner (Swedish actress Viveca Lindfors plays a Mexican woman--go figure) whose husband, daughter, and employees all despise her; the punch-drunk old bare knuckles boxer whose widowed daughter-in-law harbors a secret agenda; the Indian cowhand (played by John Drew Barrymore, father of Drew) estranged from his tribe for joining up with the white man. There's also a pronounced psychological element (our heroes match wits as well as weapons with evil townsfolk, Indians, revolutionary Mexicans, and even a killer puma), and a little mystical mumbo-jumbo ("haunted" hills, a Druid curse, the appearance of St. Elmo's fire on the cattle's horns in a lightning storm) to boot. And while Gil, Rowdy and company are sometimes too trusting, they're fair and honest guys who defend strangers, stand up for folks in need, and invariably do the righteous thing. Add to that some nice transfers of the show's great-looking black & white cinematography and a chance to hear Frankie Laine sing "Rollin', rollin', rollin', keep them dogies movin'" twice in every episode, and what's not to like about Rawhide? --Sam Graham
Rawhide - The Second Season, Vol. 1 Reviews:
Rawhide-The Second Season 
2009-01-18 - This product was a Christmas gift to my husband and he was very surprised and delighted with the video---It's in Black & White , but is so much fun because it brings back memories of when we had only B & W movies in the theaters and no such thing as a video---what a treat !
"Rawhide ... Second Season Vol. One ... Paramount Pictures (2007)"
2009-01-01 - CBS Television and Paramount Pictures presents "RAWHIDE: SECOND SEASON VOL. ONE" (18 September 1959 - 29 January 1960) (720 mins/In Glorious Black & White) (digitally remastered in Dolby) -- Rawhide was a television western series that aired on the U.S. network CBS from 1959 to 1966. The show starred Eric Fleming and launched the career of Clint Eastwood --- The series ran for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959 to January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 episodes, all filmed and broadcast in black and white --- It was produced and sometimes directed by Charles Marquis Warren who also produced early episodes of Gunsmoke --- Warren based Rawhide on the movie Cattle Empire that he directed in 1958 and for which Endre Bohem was a screenwriter and Paul Brinegar, Steve Raines and Rocky Shahan were actors; all also worked in Rawhide --- Its premiere episode reached the top 20 in the Nielsen Ratings. It rose steadily in popularity until, towards the end of the series run, it was one of America's top ten shows --- Rawhide was the fourth longest-running American TV western, beaten only by nine years of The Virginian and Wagon Train, fourteen years of Bonanza, and twenty years of Gunsmoke.
The episode would be introduced, usually by some words from Gil Favor but sometimes by others --- The typical Rawhide story involved drovers, portrayed by Eric Fleming (Trail Boss Gil Favor) and Clint Eastwood (ramrod Rowdy Yates), coming upon people on the trail and getting drawn into solving whatever problem they presented or were confronting --- Some of the stories were obviously easier in production terms but the peak form of the show was convincing and naturalistic, and sometimes brutal. Its situations could range from parched plains to anthrax, ghostly riders to wolves, cattle raiding, bandits, murderers, and so forth --- A problem on such drives was the constant need for water, and the scout spent much of his time looking for it, sometimes finding water holes, even rivers had dried up - In some ways it was similar to the TV series Wagon Train that debuted in 1957.
Of all the western characters on TV, these were the only real cowboys, because they drove cows. There were also sheep boys who drove sheep, pig boys who looked after pigs, etc. The name cowboys became a generic name in western films and TV series --- The theme song's lyrics were written by Ned Washington in 1958. It was composed by Dimitri Tiomkin and sung by pop singer Frankie Laine. The theme song became very popular --- It was covered several times and parts of the song also appear in more recent movies like The Blues Brothers and Shrek.-- (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
List of Season, Episode, Title and Original Air Date:
Season 2, Episode 1: Incident of the Day of the Dead (guest star Viveca Lindfors)
Original Air Date--18 September 1959
Season 2, Episode 2: Incident of the Roman Candles (guest star Beverly Garland)
Original Air Date--25 September 1959
Season 2, Episode 3: Incident at Dangerfield Dip (guest star Douglas Kennedy)
Original Air Date--2 October 1959
Season 2, Episode 4: Incident of the Shambling Man (guest stars Anne Francis, Victor McLaglen, Gene Nelson, Robert Lowery, Harry Carey Jr. & Earle Hodgins)
Original Air Date--9 October 1959
Season 2, Episode 5: Incident at Jacob's Well (guest stars David Brian & Patricia Medina)
Original Air Date--16 October 1959
Season 2, Episode 6: Incident of the 13th Man (guest stars Edward Platt & Paul Fix)
Original Air Date--23 October 1959
Season 2, Episode 7: Incident at the Buffalo Smokehouse (guest stars Vera Miles, Gene Evans, Leif Erickson & John Agar)
Original Air Date--30 October 1959
Season 2, Episode 8: Incident of the Haunted Hills (guest stars John Drew Barrymore,
Kent Smith & Strother Martin)
Original Air Date--6 November 1959
Season 2, Episode 9: Incident of the Stalking Death (guest stars Cesar Romero, Mari Blanchard & Martin Garralaga)
Original Air Date--13 November 1959
Season 2, Episode 10: Incident of the Valley in Shadow (guest stars Leo Gordon, Rick Jason & Fay Spain)
Original Air Date--20 November 1959
Season 2, Episode 11: Incident of the Blue Fire (guest star Skip Homeier)
Original Air Date--11 December 1959
Season 2, Episode 12: Incident at Spanish Rock (guest star Jacques Aubuchon)
Original Air Date--18 December 1959
Season 2, Episode 13: Incident of the Druid Curse (guest stars Claude Akins, Luana Patten & Don Keefer)
Original Air Date--8 January 1960
Season 2, Episode 14: Incident at Red River Station (guest star James Dunn)
Original Air Date--15 January 1960
Season 2, Episode 15: Incident of the Devil and His Due (guest star Neville Brand)
Original Air Date--22 January 1960
Season 2, Episode 16: Incident of the Wanted Painter (guest stars Arthur Franz,
Steve Brodie & Robert Lowery)
Original Air Date--29 January 1960
BIOS:
1. Eric Fleming (aka: Edward Heddy)
Date of Birth:: 4 July 1925 - Santa Paula, California
Date of Death: 28 September 1966 - Tingo Maria area, Peru (drowned)
2. Clint Eastwood
Date of Birth: 31 May 1930 - San Francisco, California
Date of Death: Still Living
Great job by Paramount Pictures and their staff for releasing this long awaited edition with collectible Seasons with unforgettable episodes --- looking forward to more of the same from the rousing CBS Television vintage era --- order your copy now from Amazon their Western Classics -- all my heroes have been cowboys!
Total Time: 720 mins on 4 DVD's ~ Paramount Pictures ~ (05/29/2007)
Rawhide - The Second Season, Vol. 1 
2008-10-06 - Rawhide was one of the best westerns that was ever on television. It's a shame that CBS/Paramount has decided to break this season up in two volumes. They didn't do it on Mission: Impossible. But there's just no telling about Paramount. I don't think they are particularly geared toward customer satisfaction.
This set of Rawhide has sixteen episodes & they're in excellent condition. Though Clint Eastwood (Rowdy Yates) receives second billing, Sheb Wooley (Pete Nolan) is just as visible. Paul Brinegar (Wishbone) appears to have more screen time but James Murdock (Mushy) is still tagging along but not with much to do. We occasionally see Rocky Shahan (Joe Scarlet) but he doesn't say much. Robert Cabal (Jesus or as the credits put it, Hey-Soos) makes a single appearance.
The set opens with " Incident of the Day of the Dead" which has Rowdy as the primary character. It's a peculiar episode of Rawhide that has Rowdy at a ranch to attempt to break a wild stallion that no one else has been able to. It's eerie music will give you a sci-fi flashback. "Incident of the Roman Candles" was a bonus episode of the first season. The episode features Pete Nolan as the main character. "Incident of the Shambling Man" has Victor McLaglen & Anne Francis as guest stars. Mclaglen is a former boxer that has delusions of being in the ring again. Most consider him harmless but his daughter-in-law (Francis) sets him up as dangerous & lies about him attacking her. "Incident of the Thirteenth Man" has Wishbone with a toothache. Wishbone & Rowdy go to the nearest town & get forced into jury duty. "Incident of the Stalking Death" has Cesar Romero as a guest star. In this episode Favor has wounded a cougar but it has escaped. A visit from a senora leads Favor into taking more interest in finishing off the cougar. Romero sees Favor as competition for the senora so he plans to kill him. "Incident of the Blue Fire" is an episode I actually remember. The St. Elmo's fire bit on the cattle has always stuck with me. Skip Homeier (Lucky) is the guest star. This is the only episode Jesus appears in; it's also the only episode Charles Marquis Warren directs in this set. This episode has a mild Twilight Zone-like twist. In "Incident at Spanish Rock" the drovers encounter a band of Mexican revolutionaries. "Incident of the Druid's Curse: is another strange episode of Rawhide. "Incident at Red River Station" involves a smallpox incident. The twist in this episode is the doctor expressing that everyone should be vaccinated. Nowadays we know about this but it was a novel idea in that period.
Overall this is a very good set of Rawhide episodes. But it's odd, after all these years, to see a young Clint Eastwood who's character isn't the star & learning about the cattle business. There are absolutely no bonus materials included in this set, not even subtitles. CBS/Paramount has really skimped on this set though they didn't really have much bonus material in the season one set.
"Head 'em up! Move 'em out!" Rollin', rollin', rollin'...
Rawhide 2nd Season, volume 1
2008-01-18 - Received in good time, in good shape, all as advertised! Will highly recommend the seller!!
paramount gets greedy
2007-11-15 - Rawhide is one of the greatest tv shows of all time. Paramount has decided to split the seasons, which of course gets Paramount more money. I'll buy volume 2 when it comes out in december, which speaks of the quality of the show. However this is a disturbing trend which also happened to the second season of The Big Valley from Fox
