RAS #668 - Rawhide

On Ron’s Amazing Stories this week we open with a look at the
history of Western films, from the silent era to modern times. Our
featured story is Lux Radio Theater’s radio adaptation of the 1951
Western film Rawhide, starring Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward. The
radio adaptation features Jeffrey Hunter and Donna Reed in the lead
roles, with the supporting cast played by the actors from the
Gunsmoke radio series. Our story tells the tale of Tom Owens, the
clean-cut and sophisticated gentleman son of J. C. Owens of the
Overland Mail Company. His father wants his son to learn the
business from the ground up, so he sends him west to a remote relay
station, Rawhide Pass, to take lessons from stationmaster Sam Todd.
Needless to say Tom learns a lot more than he bargained for when he
meets a strong-willed woman named Vinnie Holt, and an outlaw Rafe
Zimmerman, who had escaped from Huntsville the day before his
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