The Rawhide Years

{{Infobox film

| name = The Rawhide Years

| image = File:The Rawhide Years.jpg

| caption =

| director = Rudolph Mate

| producer = Stanley Rubin

| writer =

| screenplay = Earl Fenton

| starring = Tony Curtis
Colleen Miller
Arthur Kennedy

| music = Hans J. Salter
Frank Skinner

| cinematography = Irving Glassberg

| editing = Russell F. Schoemgarth

| color_process = Technicolor

| studio = Universal Pictures

| distributor = Universal Pictures

| released = {{film date|1956|7|1|}}

| runtime = 85 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross = $1 million (US)'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1956', Variety Weekly, January 2, 1957

}}

The Rawhide Years is a 1956 American Technicolor western film directed by Rudolph Mate and starring Tony Curtis. Colleen Miller and Arthur Kennedy.[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/87751 /The-Rawhide-Years/ The Rawhide Years]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} at TCMDB It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.

Plot

Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But, Galena's leading citizen is murdered on the riverboat while on their way. Ben is implicated on arrival and flees, all the while working both sides of the law to clear his name. Three years of wandering later, Zoe's letters stop coming and Ben returns to find her. Encountering Rick Harper, whom he initially takes as a would be bandit, they develop a friendship that winds up with both men saving the other's neck.