Raw Edge (1956)

• Director
  • John Sherwood
• Writers
  • Harry Essex
  • Robert Hill
  • William Kozlenko(story)
• Stars
  • Rory Calhoun
  • Yvonne De Carlo
  • Mara Corday

  Raw Edge is a modest Universal western from the peak of the double-feature era. Rory Calhoun plays a rancher whose "equal opportunity" hiring policies backfire. Calhoun learns that several of his ranch hands plan to kill him and take over the property. The treacherous employees further intend claim Calhoun's widow-to-be (Yvonne de Carlo) along with the ranch. Mara Corday plays the other woman in Calhoun's life: Can she, or anyone else in this picture, be trusted? While the plotline of Raw Edge has its esoteric moments, the film is brought down to earth by the perfunctory direction of John Sherwood.