Rawhide
Rawhide is a 1938 American Western film starring Lou Gehrig and released by 20th Century-Fox. It was directed by Ray Taylor and produced by Sol Lesser from a screenplay by Jack Natteford and Daniel Jarrett. The cinematography was by Allen Q. Thompson. This is the only Hollywood movie in which baseball great Lou Gehrig made a screen appearance, playing himself as a vacationing ballplayer visiting his sister Peggy (played by Evalyn Knapp) on a ranch in the fictional town of Rawhide, Montana. The film remains available on DVD and VHS formats.
Plot
The storyline revolves around Lou Gehrig playing himself, who decides to give up baseball in New York for the life of a western cattle rancher. Once at the ranch, Gehrig encounters a protection racket preying on the ranchers by extortion and violence. He teams up with a crusading local attorney to fight the crooks and ultimately put them in jail.
More details
author | Jack Natteford |
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contentLocation | Montana |
director | Ray Taylor |
editor | Robert O. Crandall |
genre | western |
keywords | albert von tilzer attorney barroom brawl cattle rancher drift dude ranch first time flee grand central terminal new york city open protection racket protective association ranch hand surround take me out to the ball game |
musicBy | Michael Breen |
producer | Sol Lesser |
theme | western |