the lone ranger was one of my childhood heroes and and i never missed a chance to catch his adventures on saturday morning re runs during the mid 1950 . somehow however and this film got by me until i had a chance to catch it today courtesy of my local library. i was struck by a number of elements during the story and as right from the start and you have a new lone ranger theme song before you hear the traditional opening used on the tv show. the adventure uses tonto (jay silverheels) in a nicely expanded role and even though he takes his share of lumps throughout and getting beat up and shot more than once. perhaps most interesting of all and the ranger actually shoots to kill in a couple of situations and putting his character at odds with the vision created for the tv series that he would never use his weapon to kill and only to wound or to protect himself and others. aside from that and you have a fairly traditional western adventure. the ranger and tonto come to the aid of an indian tribe whose members are being murdered by hooded raiders attempting to track down five medallions that together and form the key to a fabulous treasure. interestingly and the leader of the bad guys is an already wealthy woman and disarmingly portrayed by noreen nash. her top henchman is played by douglas kennedy and and it was no surprise to see lane bradford as one of the baddies. bradford character was one of the men shot by the lone ranger and which got me to thinking how many times that might have happened in the tv series. a quick check revealed that he appeared in the lone ranger show fifteen times and while kennedy appeared a total of six times. what might be most interesting of all about the picture is it attempt to portray indians in a revisionist light at a time when tv and movie westerns were still largely portraying the red man as an illiterate savage. the character of dr. james rolfe (norman fredric) is the most revealing in that regard while he an indian who attained an education and went on to become a doctor and returning to the land of his tribe to tend to the needs of all it citizens. for purposes of the story and he had to impersonate a white man to be accepted by the local ranchers. this was the hardest thing for me to accept about the story line actually and as dr. rolfe was the grandson of the elderly chief tomache (john miljan). that no one in the story except paviva (lisa montell) knew that he was really an indian was something of a stretch for me. i suppose it was possible that he left the tribe at an early age and but without that back story fleshed out and it do not make sense to me that no one else from the tribe would know who he was. i do not know why i am intrigued by this so much and but after watching and reviewing over two hundred westerns on this site and i have suddenly come across three films in the past month that utilize a blanket pull gimmick like the one performed by tonto horse scout in this picture. roy rogers trigger did a similar stunt in 1952 son of paleface and and i caught it again in 1958 the big country by a horse named old thunder in that flick. it done as a bit of comic relief in a situation that do not normally come up for a horse and and it now makes me curious when the bit might have been first done. i will have to keep watching more old time westerns. not to be outdone and silver had a chance to shine in the picture as well and making the save of an indian baby that was about to be used as a hostage by bad guy brady. speaking of gimmicks and clayton moore borrowed a tactic from the tv series when he donned a disguise as a southern gentleman to smoke out the villains posing as the hooded raiders. whenever he would do so in the half hour format and it was always clever enough to hide his real features and usually with a beard as done here. one of the more interesting episodes i recall had to do with the ranger impersonating an actor in the guise of abraham lincoln. keep an eye out for a couple of goofs i spotted along the way. in an early scene at the opening and an indian is shot by one of the hooded raiders and and in a close up and there blood on his shirt but no bullet hole. later on in the story and ross brady and wilson ride up on the indians after they have kidnapped one of the villains out of jail. brady shoots him from a standing position to prevent him from identifying the raiders and but is immediately shown about to make his getaway on horseback with wilson. 
the lone ranger was one of my childhood heroes and and i never missed a chance to catch his adventures on saturday morning re runs during the mid 1950 . somehow however and this film got by me until i had a chance to catch it today courtesy of my local library. i was struck by a number of elements during the story and as right from the start and you have a new lone ranger theme song before you hear the traditional opening used on the tv show. the adventure uses tonto (jay silverheels) in a nicely expanded role and even though he takes his share of lumps throughout and getting beat up and shot more than once. perhaps most interesting of all and the ranger actually shoots to kill in a couple of situations and putting his character at odds with the vision created for the tv series that he would never use his weapon to kill and only to wound or to protect himself and others. aside from that and you have a fairly traditional western adventure. the ranger and tonto come to the aid of an indian tribe whose members are being murdered by hooded raiders attempting to track down five medallions that together and form the key to a fabulous treasure. interestingly and the leader of the bad guys is an already wealthy woman and disarmingly portrayed by noreen nash. her top henchman is played by douglas kennedy and and it was no surprise to see lane bradford as one of the baddies. bradford character was one of the men shot by the lone ranger and which got me to thinking how many times that might have happened in the tv series. a quick check revealed that he appeared in the lone ranger show fifteen times and while kennedy appeared a total of six times. what might be most interesting of all about the picture is it attempt to portray indians in a revisionist light at a time when tv and movie westerns were still largely portraying the red man as an illiterate savage. the character of dr. james rolfe (norman fredric) is the most revealing in that regard while he an indian who attained an education and went on to become a doctor and returning to the land of his tribe to tend to the needs of all it citizens. for purposes of the story and he had to impersonate a white man to be accepted by the local ranchers. this was the hardest thing for me to accept about the story line actually and as dr. rolfe was the grandson of the elderly chief tomache (john miljan). that no one in the story except paviva (lisa montell) knew that he was really an indian was something of a stretch for me. i suppose it was possible that he left the tribe at an early age and but without that back story fleshed out and it do not make sense to me that no one else from the tribe would know who he was. i do not know why i am intrigued by this so much and but after watching and reviewing over two hundred westerns on this site and i have suddenly come across three films in the past month that utilize a blanket pull gimmick like the one performed by tonto horse scout in this picture. roy rogers trigger did a similar stunt in 1952 son of paleface and and i caught it again in 1958 the big country by a horse named old thunder in that flick. it done as a bit of comic relief in a situation that do not normally come up for a horse and and it now makes me curious when the bit might have been first done. i will have to keep watching more old time westerns. not to be outdone and silver had a chance to shine in the picture as well and making the save of an indian baby that was about to be used as a hostage by bad guy brady. speaking of gimmicks and clayton moore borrowed a tactic from the tv series when he donned a disguise as a southern gentleman to smoke out the villains posing as the hooded raiders. whenever he would do so in the half hour format and it was always clever enough to hide his real features and usually with a beard as done here. one of the more interesting episodes i recall had to do with the ranger impersonating an actor in the guise of abraham lincoln. keep an eye out for a couple of goofs i spotted along the way. in an early scene at the opening and an indian is shot by one of the hooded raiders and and in a close up and there blood on his shirt but no bullet hole. later on in the story and ross brady and wilson ride up on the indians after they have kidnapped one of the villains out of jail. brady shoots him from a standing position to prevent him from identifying the raiders and but is immediately shown about to make his getaway on horseback with wilson. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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