This black-and-white Western, “Rawhide,” starring Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, and Hugh Marlowe, presents a scenario where four bandits seize control of a southern Wyoming way station while anticipating the arrival of a stagecoach carrying gold. Hugh Marlowe portrays the leader of these criminals, with Jack Elam appearing as his unstable second-in-command. The film’s impact on later Westerns is notable; it shares …

Desperate Siege. Rawhide comes from director Henry Hathaway and screenwriter Dudley Nichols, featuring Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Jack Elam, George Tobias, Dean Jagger, and Edgar Buchanan. Sol Kaplan and Lionel Newman composed the music, with Milton Krasner handling the cinematography. The story centers on a stagecoach station employee and a female passenger who is traveling with her infant niec…