ever wonder why some film have fade from view and be little spoken of . rawhide be a great example and contain many reason for it general obscurity . thing go wrong the moment susan hayward arrive on the scene . this woman can not act and her character be completely overbearing and obnoxious . this be simply a badly write story make worse by bizarre performance by hugh marlowe and dean jagger and george tobias and the thoroughly freakish jack elam who be either the highlight or the low light of the film . jack elam give all to his role with his eye bug out and lick his lip and his teeth and stick out his tongue and his jaw and position his head in every freakish position that he can . and he get close ups . all he need be to have his head spin around a la linda blair in the exorcist . hugh marlowe be awful and doesn not seem to realize he be in a movie . dean jagger mutter much of the time a the semi simpleton of marlowe band of gold robber . george tobias play an ethnic in the manner of el brendel and yet look like alfonso bedoya in the treasure of the sierra madre . tyrone power do the best of all with a cookie cutter character . on the other hand and the location shoot in lone pine be very attractive and the digital restoration make the image quality look near to real life and but in black and white . i can not envision myself ever watch this grueling film again .