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Rawhide

Lux Radio Theatre · March 22, 1955 · 47 min · 5,420 words

The transcript of “Rawhide”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast March 22, 1955. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Lux Radio Theatre plays Lux Radio Theatre free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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present Hollywood. The makeers of the luck, radio theaters, starring Donner Ead and Jeffrey Hunter in Raw Hives. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Irving Cummings. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. The night we present Academy Award winner, Donner Ead, and the talented young actor, Jeffrey Hunter, in an exciting saga of the Old West, Roar High.

What a box of screen hits. It tells the story of two strangers who meet at a lonely stagecoach station and are held as hostages by an escaped criminal. A hundred years ago, the territory of New Mexico included much of the area, now known as Arizona and New Mexico.

But a hundred years ago, the hardy travel of the territory as a vast wasteland, separating California from the east. a waste of hostile Indians and ruthless bandits, and of something known to its friend as the Jackass Mail.

A crowd of dust moving across the arid plateaus, upward through mountain passes, down with a long icy stream, aimlessly across the desert, of plunging, pounding, planting thing of real flesh, and wooden irons, and human determinations.

That was the Oberlin Mail. and Francisco to safe north in 25 days. Twenty seven hundred miles in 25 days and 25 nights. The shortest fastest back breaking at rides you could buy for two hundred dollars gold.

Meals included. The eating part of it came at the various relay stations along the route. At lonely cabins and Adobe posts, where fresh teams were hit to the stage. Roar high-pah was one such station.

Hey Tom, that's the stage. I heard it Sam. Well, on the way out there all day. Answer them, all right? Everything according to company rules.

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