Rawhide - The Second Season, Vol. 2 |  | Actor: Clint Eastwood
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 822 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD852524D
UPC: 097368525245
EAN: 0097368525245
ASIN: B000VS6R3A
Theatrical Release Date: January 9, 1959
Release Date: December 18, 2007
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Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 18-DEC-2007
Media Type: DVD
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Rawhide's second season keeps "rollin', rollin', rollin'" and fans of one of TV's greatest Western series will not be disapprovin' of these remaining 16 episodes. A pre-spaghetti Western Clint Eastwood at his longest and leanest, and that classic theme song that Jake and Elwood popularized for a new generation who may have never seen an episode, may rope in buyers for this four-disc set. But nearly 50 years later, Rawhide is as timeless as those majestic landscapes (grandly filmed on location) trail boss Gil Favor (Eric Fleming) and his drovers rode across each week. What makes Rawhide so compelling are its human dramas. As a philosophical Favor notes in one episode, "The expected never seems to happen. The surprises are always poppin' up." Coming to the aid of a runaway spinster, running afoul of a band of gypsies, or being forced to accompany a wagonload of stolen nitroglycerin provide much more excitement than stampeding cattle. Eastwood, as Favor's protégé, Rowdy Yates, gives Rawhide some "before they were stars" cachet. But this is an ensemble drama in which colorful and memorable characters abound, including Paul Brinegar's grizzled and prideful cook, Wishbone, James Murdock as the simple-minded Mushie, and Sheb Wooley as compassionate scout Pete Nolan. Veteran and greenhorn character actors put their own brands on individual episodes. Frances "Aunt Bea" Bavier turns up in "Incident of the Dust Flower." Warren Oates portrays a gypsy in "Incident of the Dancing Death." Cloris Leachman is an unhappy trading post proprietor's wife in "Incident of the Arana Sacar." And, in "Incident of the Stargazer," who would have thought folksy Buddy Ebsen, clad in a leather jacket, could take part in a Gaslight-scheme to defraud an unfortunate woman? But some of the best episodes in this set revolve around the drovers themselves. In "Incident of the Tinker's Dam," it seems that Wishbone's twin brother is not the paragon his brother steadfastly believes. In "Incident of the Sharpshooter," Rowdy is framed for murder by an outlaw posing as his lawyer. Rawhide galloped into the top ten in its second season. These episodes gloriously recapture a bygone era when Westerns ruled prime time. --Donald Liebenson
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A Cowboy With Real Cows May 24, 2009
Celia Hayes (San Antonio, SA)
This classic television series holds up quite well, all things considering and especially in comparison with later products like The Wild Wild West, which were very obviously shot on back-lots or locations in the near vicinity of Griffith Park. No expense seems to have been spared for "Rawhide" as regards to locations, props and the essential livestock. It became a bit of a joke later on, for TV westerns to be ostensibly set on a cattle ranch with never a cow actually to be seen, but this series managed to escape that "stock" situation. Just as well, considering that it was supposed to take place during a cattle drive from Texas to rail heads in Kansas just after the Civil War, and the movement of a large group of cattle is absolutely central to much of the various episode plots. Quite a lot of action takes place out of doors, on horseback and in conjunction with the aforementioned herd of cattle, and such location shoots are integrated fairly seamlessly with the sound-staged moments. Oddly enough, the fact that it is in black and white lends something of an air of realism to the show; everyone generally appears authentically grubby, sweaty and hard-working.
The episodes contained in this four-disc collection were originally broadcast in 1960. In many ways the show is in peak form; the characters of tough and gritty trail boss Gil Favor (Eric Fleming) and his drovers are well-enough developed, but not yet worn out. There are all kinds of fresh angles to find out about the characters - Wishbone the cook (Paul Brinegar), Pete Nolan (Sheb Woolley) and cowhand Rowdy Yates (Clint Eastwood - yes, that Clint Eastwood). Eastwood is not actually the top bill in the series credits - the appearance of the box cover art to the contrary. Eric Fleming was very much the series star; the series was canceled very shortly after he departed the show in the mid 1960s. While watching this series, my daughter and I wondered why we had never seen him in anything else; he played an immensely likable and complicated character, and the show was popular all during its' eight season run. It turns out that he was drowned in an accident on location for another adventure show within a year or so after leaving the cast of "Rawhide".
 rawhide January 19, 2009
J. tanquary (california)
these were the days nothing like them for the european with ancestores that came this way in america pre ninteenth century. course any body can relate to them unless your a racist, with the actors it seemed like real history and clint eastwood early start. so move them out hit them up it the best of the west
"Rawhide ... Second Season Vol. Two ... Paramount Pictures (2007)" January 1, 2009
J. Lovins (Missouri-USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
CBS Television and Paramount Pictures presents "RAWHIDE: SECOND SEASON VOL TWO" (5 February 1960 - 17 June 1960) (822 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 17: Incident at Tinker's Dam (guest stars Monte Blue & Anthony Dexter)
Original Air Date--5 February 1960
Season 2, Episode 18: Incident of the Night Horse (guest star George Wallace)
Original Air Date--19 February 1960
Season 2, Episode 19: Incident of the Sharpshooter (guest stars Jock Mahoney,
Norman Leavitt, Kenne Duncan & Fred Lerner
Original Air Date--26 February 1960
Season 2, Episode 20: Incident of the Dust Flower (guest stars Tom Drake)
Original Air Date--4 March 1960
Season 2, Episode 21: Incident at Sulphur Creek (guest star John Dehner)
Original Air Date--11 March 1960
Season 2, Episode 22: Incident of the Champagne Bottles(guest stars Patricia Barry,
Lane Bradford, John Hart & Hugh Marlowe)
Original Air Date--18 March 1960
Season 2, Episode 23: Incident of the Stargazer (guest stars Buddy Ebsen & Richard Webb)
Original Air Date--1 April 1960
Season 2, Episode 24: Incident of the Dancing Death (guest stars Anthony Caruso & Warren Oates)
Original Air Date--8 April 1960
Season 2, Episode 25: Incident of the Arana Sacar (guest star Cloris Leachman)
Original Air Date--22 April 1960
Season 2, Episode 26: Incident of the Deserter (guest stars Bob Steele & Rush Williams)
Original Air Date--29 April 1960
Season 2, Episode 27: Incident of the One Hundred Amulets (guest star R.G. Armstrong)
Original Air Date--6 May 1960
Season 2, Episode 28: Incident of the Murder Steer (guest star James Franciscus)
Original Air Date--13 May 1960
Season 2, Episode 29: Incident of the Music Maker (guest star Werner Klemperer)
Original Air Date--20 May 1960
Season 2, Episode 30: Incident of the Silver Web (guest star Don Haggerty)
Original Air Date--3 June 1960
Season 2, Episode 31: Incident of the Last Chance (guest star Guy Teague,
Hank Patterson & John Kerr)
Original Air Date--10 June 1960
Season 2, Episode 32: Incident in the Garden of Eden (guest stars John Ireland, Debra Paget,
Robert Coote & J. Pat O'Malley)
Original Air Date--17 June 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: 822 mins on 4 DVD's ~ Paramount Pictures ~ (12/18/2007)
Head 'em up and move 'em out! More please! April 26, 2008
D. E. Young (Halstead, Essex United Kingdom)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I waited years to get my hands on the complete series' of this all time great western series RAWHIDE. Eric Fleming was a great star and actor. I understand that HE was the original one who was asaked to play "The man with no name" - he passed on it and handed it to Clint to see if it interested him - the rest is history. Of course this was a few more years down the line, there are many more great episodes and seasons to enjoy yet. Can't wait to get my hands on season 3. It's a bit of a shame that Clint is given the highlight on the covers when to be honest it was Eric Flemings AND Clint's show ... in that order.
Rawhide has the best sound track April 2, 2008
Paul D. Zegenhagen (Australia)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The first thing to strike you is the great background sound of this program. The singing of the song by Frankie Laine and the score being presented by Dmitri Tonkin of High Noon fame is of the highest quality. The picture and sound is great. The acting is excellent and stories are very simple but very entertaining and I recommend it for viewing by all.
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