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Of course, the Lone Ranger saves Silver, nurses him back to health, and the horse chooses to express his gratitude by staying on as his steed. The Lone Ranger and Tonto subsequently end up in Wild Horse Canyon, where they are looking for a new mount for the justice-hunter, only to find an “enraged buffalo” going after young Silver.

Five years into the show, it finally occurred to someone that maybe Silver’s fans wanted to know where he came from, thus leading to the Septemepisode of the show, “The Legend of Silver.” The episode taught us that the Lone Ranger’s first horse was named Dusty, and she was a proud chestnut mare who died in the middle of a pursuit (for justice).

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When the radio series kicked off, Silver was already John Reid’s horse and had been for some time. Sadly enough, Silver’s beginnings weren’t nearly as auspicious in the original Lone Ranger radio series. Original radio series Silver (1933–1954) He’s basically just a huge star and the most generally appealing character in the entire film.īut has Silver always been this cool? (In a word, yes, but let’s at least spend a bit more time getting to know the noblest of all noble beasts.) But Silver, the Lone Ranger’s trusty steed, is chief among the film’s mystical undertones – mainly because he’s deemed a “spirit horse” from the moment he arrives, his faith in Hammer’s John Reid brings him back from the dead, and he has a panache for showing up places where most horses simply can’t (not even won’t, stubborn beasts they may be) show up.

While the film was originally meant to have some heavy supernatural elements (werewolves, anyone?), Verbinski’s final product only retains enough weirdo stuff (carnivorous rabbits, talk of “visions,” and even some cannibalistic tendencies) to keep the film’s sense of “nature being out of balance” going, even as the rest of the production’s awkward issues crumble around it. The Lone Ranger’s long and winding trail to the big screen has been, well, long and winding, with all sorts of budgetary concerns threatening to derail the Armie Hammer– and Johnny Depp-starring take on the American epic before and even during its production. (Who did you think we were talking about? Oh. Tall, brave, fierce, fast, and funny, Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger seems poised to reintroduce this legend of stage and screen to a whole new pack of fans, while also delighting an adoring public that’s tracked his every step since the 1930’s. Just in time for the Fourth of July holiday, a great American hero, born from the sands of the very Wild West he helped settle, hits the big screen at a clip so fast that it can only be declared a gallop. He is even forced to remove his mask and masquerade as Bill Andrews as he overcomes traps, ambushes, burning buildings and other obstacles in his attempts to bring peace to the valley. The Lone Ranger attempts to aid the homesteaders but is hampered by the fact that he has been accused of being one of the Raiders. His son, Bart, has taken matters into his own hands and formed the Black Raiders.

The valley had been settled by rancher Craig Dolan, who does not want the new homesteaders to be there. Homesteaders moving into a valley in New Mexico are being attacked by the Black Raiders.

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Although missing it's cliffhanger endings (it had been re-edited to run as a movie length feature) it has here been re-chaptered, recapturing many of those cliffhanger moments. It was considered lost for many years but a lone copy, with Spanish subtitles, has since been found. The Lone Ranger Rides Again was the sequel to Republic's earlier 1937 serial The Lone Ranger.

The lone ranger serial 1939