The Lone Ranger (1938)(2 disc) DVD-R

Starring Lynne Roberts, Stanley Andrews, George Cleveland, Chief
Thundercloud, William Farnum, Wally Wales, Bruce Bennett, Lee Powell,
Lane Chandler, George Montgomery
Directed by John English, William Witney

Print: black/white
Runtime: 264 min.
Genre: western
Print Quality: B

Most everyone knows that The Lone Ranger, "masked rider of the
plains", was in fact a former Texas Ranger named Reid, who vowed to
fight for justice after his older brother was killed. The 1938 Republic
serial version of The Lone Ranger muddies the "true identity" waters by
offering us five heroes, any one of whom might be the Ranger. The five
leading men are picked off one by one by outlaw leader Stanley Andrews,
until only the genuine Ranger is left. There's nothing like process of
elimination to solve a mystery; this process takes 15 full episodes. The
Lone Ranger candidates are played by Lee Powell, Lane Chandler,
Herman Brix (aka Bruce Bennett), Hal Taliaferro (aka Wally Wales) and
George Letz (aka George Montgomery). Tonto, the masked man's faithful
Indian companion, is played by Chief Thundercloud. Unavailable for many
years due to copyright tangles, The Lone Ranger finally resurfaced in the
1970s in a duped, foreign-language version; some episodes carried
Spanish subtitles, while others were dubbed in Spanish with English
captions.