Paul Davis On Crime: Rawhide

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Saturday, April 4, 2020

'Head 'Em Up And Move 'Em Out': How The TV Western Series 'Rawhide' Launched Clint Eastwood's Career

This Saturday morning, I watch a rebroadcast of Rawhide on the ME channel.

I loved the Western show when I was a kid, loved Frankie Lane's opening song, and I enjoy watching the shows again as an adult. It was on Rawhide that I first saw Clint Eastwood, who went on to e a major film actor.

Courtney Campbell at WideOpenCountry.com offers a piece on how Rawhide launched Clint Eastwood’s career.

The '50s and '60s were a glorious time for TV westerns. Has there been any other time in American television where we had such strong cowboy characters to watch every week? We had Bonanza, the Lone Ranger, Wagon Train, and Gunsmoke. But we also had the TV show that kicked off Clint Eastwood's western career: Rawhide.

The show is set during the 1860s, capturing the cattle drive lifestyle. Eric Fleming stars as trail boss Gil Favor. Eastwood stars opposite him as Rowdy Yates, the young and feisty accomplice, who Favor continually keeps in check. Sheb Wooley played scout Pete Nolan, Paul Brinegar played the cook Wishbone, James Murdock played Wishbone's assistant "Mushy," Rocky Shahan, played drover Joe Scarlet, and Steve Raines played drover Jim Quince. It was a great group of characters to follow season after season.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

https://www.wideopencountry.com/rawhide-tv-series/

Friday, May 31, 2019

Happy 89th Birthday To Clint Eastwood, Director And Star Of 'The Mule'

Happy birthday to Clint Eastwood. The film director and actor turns 89 today.

I've been a fan of Clint Eastwood since I watched him on TV as Rowdy Yates in Rawhide when I was a kid in the 1960's.

Over the years I've also enjoyed watching him in crime films like Dirty Harry and Coogan's Bluff and in westerns like The Unforgiven and Hang Em' High.

Clint Eastwood has also directed such fine films as Mystic River and Gran Torino.

My wife and I recently watched him in The Mule, an interesting and compelling crime drama that he directed and also starred in. The film, about an elderly drug smuggler, was based on a true story.

Clint Eastman remains a good actor and a fine director.

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

On This Day In History Clint Eastwood Was Born

As History.com notes, on this day in 1930 actor and director Clint Eastwood was born.

You can read about his life and work via the below link:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/clint-eastwood-born

Note: As a kid in the 1960s I watched actor Clint Eastwood on the TV series Rawhide as the young ramrod Rowdie Yates (I'm rewatching the shows now on MeTv) and I later enjoyed his crime and western films like Coogan's Bluff, Dirty Harry and Joe Kidd. I've also enjoyed the films he directed like Mystic River and Unforgiven.

Friday, May 31, 2013

Happy Birthday To Clint Eastwood

Happy birthday to Clint Eastwood. The film director and actor turns 83 today.

I've been a fan of ole Clint since I watched him on TV as Rowdy Yates in Rawhide when I was a kid in the 1960's. Over the years I've also enjoyed watching him in crime films like Dirty Harry and in westerns like The Unforgiven. Clint Eastwood also directed such fine films as Mystic River and Gran Torino.

You can learn more about Clint Eastwood at biography.com via the below link:

http://www.biography.com/people/clint-eastwood-9283502

Paul Davis

Paul Davis is a writer who covers crime. He has written extensively about organized crime, cybercrime, street crime, white collar crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, the military, espionage and terrorism. He is a contributor to the Washington Examiner, and his work has also appeared in the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Daily News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Weekly and other publications. His 'Crime Beat' column, which covers crime news, crime issues and crime prevention in South Philadelphia, appears weekly in the South Philly Review, and his 'On Crime' column, which covers crime in the Greater Philadelphia region, appears weekly at Philly Daily and Broad and Liberty. He is also a longtime contributor to Counterterrorism magazine and writes their online 'Threatcon' column, which covers crime, espionage and terrorism. Paul Davis' crime fiction appears in American Crime Magazine. As a writer, he has attended police academy training, gone out on patrol with police officers, accompanied detectives as they worked cases, accompanied narcotics officers on drug raids, observed criminal court proceedings, visited jails and prisons, and covered street riots, mob wars and murder investigations. He has interviewed police commissioners and chiefs, FBI, DEA, HSI and other federal special agents, prosecutors, judges, public officials, WWII UDT frogmen, Navy SEALs, Army Delta operators, Israeli commandos, military intelligence officers, Scotland Yard detectives, CIA officers, former KGB officers, film and TV actors, film writers, directors and producers, journalists, novelists and true crime authors, gamblers, outlaw bikers, and Cosa Nostra organized crime bosses. Paul Davis has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17 in 1970. He served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War and he later served two years aboard the Navy harbor tugboat U.S.S. Saugus at the U.S. floating nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. He went on to become the civilian administrative officer of a Defense Department command in Philadelphia, where he oversaw security, safety and other programs for the command's military and civilian employees, and served as an investigating officer, while working part-time as a newspaper crime reporter and columnist. He retired in 2007 after more than 37 Navy/DOD years of service and became a full-time writer. From 1991 to 2005 he was a producer and on-air host of "Inside Government," a public affairs interview radio program that aired on Sunday mornings on WPEN AM and WMGK FM in the Philadelphia area. You can read Paul Davis' crime columns, crime fiction, book reviews and news and feature articles on this website. You can read his full bio by clicking on the above photo (by Brittany Davis-Pearson). And you can contact Paul Davis at pauldavisoncrime@aol.com.

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