The Lone Ranger
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice. From TMDB
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60 of 171 · most liked firstOn this day in 1980, Jay Silverheels died. Born in Canada, he was a gifted lacrosse player and found fame as Tonto on The Lone Ranger. He then used his fame to help other Indigenous actors. Let's learn more about this great First Nations actor! 🧵1/16
unlabelledView post →The movie Smoke Signals (based on Sherman Alexie's book The Lone Ranger & Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven) is on PBS tonight! One of my favorite movies. ✊ Frybread Power!!!!
unlabelledView post →The Gene Autry Show, The Lone Ranger, Bonanza, and Annie Oakley The Alabama Hills are a popular location for television and movie productions, especially Westerns. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #Scape #EastCoastKin
unlabelledView post →It’s not a perfect movie but the final train scene from The Lone Ranger is brilliant. Verbinski pays loving homage to Buster Keaton movies. The scene starts at 4.03 but the overall scene analysis is fun too. youtu.be/_zYs38UTolI?...
unlabelledView post →Oklahoman here. The Lone Ranger movie was panned pretty hard by people with an undersfanding of Native American Culture and it's Population for the casting of Johnny Depp. But no one listens to them so you didn't hear it.
unlabelledView post →The first moving image ever created on film was of a Black cowboy. The Lone Ranger character + hit TV series featured a yt actor. The real life Lone Ranger is Bass Reeves who escaped enslavement + bc a US Marshal + gunfighter. #YouCan'tEraseUs #BlackHistoryMatters #OriginalCowboys
unlabelledView post →I will always find time for Gore Verbinski. Particularly fond of MOUSE HUNT (come ON - any film that includes the line "We are hair models from Belgium"), the unfairly denigrated THE LONE RANGER (yes, even Depp, + the ending makes me cry) & the fantastically weird A CURE FOR WELLNESS.
unlabelledView post →I am in a "Movies that contain one REALLY good scene but the rest is crap" mindset. Take Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger, a movie that has a really fun and action packed train-based finale set to a kick-ass rendition of William Tell Overture, too bad is at the tail end of such crap film.
unlabelledView post →1955 Caption: 'Making this her family's third generation in show business, six-year old Linda Wrather, daughter of former child star Bonita Granville, gets her work permit to make her film debut with her mother in Warner Bros. 'The Lone Ranger.'
unlabelledView post →D’you ever think that there was a huge budget film of THE LONE RANGER a few years ago and everyone forgot about it? I mean, it starred Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer and… …oh, uh. Never mind.
unlabelledView post →Hey nerds, What's a movie that looks decent in a YouTube short, but is actually quite terrible? I'll go first: The Lone Ranger www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fqd...
unlabelledView post →#MovieMadness Day 14: A movie you love that everyone hates 'The Lone Ranger' (2013) Objectionable leading men, clunky framing narrative and way too long. Yes, but it doesn't matter. It has inventive set pieces, laughs, thrills, pathos, a great villain and lots going on under the surface.
unlabelledView post →Klinton Spilsbury starred in the 1982 film “The Legend of the Lone Ranger." Andy Warhol interviewed him during his promotion tour, later describing the interview as "nutty," because Spilsbury was "blowing his whole image" during their conversation & was also "very drunk."
unlabelledView post →Today, Movie Slate asks an old friend for a favor - askmovieslate.tumblr.com/post/7561609... The Lone Ranger isn't great, but the good parts are really good. #WebComic #AskBlog #MLP #MLPOC #Pony #Unicorn
unlabelledView post →The Lone Ranger aired 9.10.66 to 9.6.69. Produced by Herb Klynn & Jules Engel of Format Films, LA; made at Halas-Batchelor Cartoon Film studios in London, and Artransa Park Film Studios, AUS. Art was drawn with china pencil on cels; colored paper was cut or torn for textured BGs.📺🖍️ #animation #art
unlabelledView post →Inner Disney Infinity thoughts: "Man, they really thought people would prefer to play as Tonto from The Lone Ranger movie over Fix-It Felix or Wander....."
unlabelledView post →#MovieSky 30 Day Movie Challenge Day 14 A movie you love that everyone else hated The Lone Ranger (2013) This movie was better than everyone gave it credit
unlabelledView post →The trailer is very confident that Depp’s name is enough like he’s Spielberg in the 80s and like, he hasn’t been in a film for 10 years and when he was it was The Lone Ranger
unlabelledView post →I think it would be very funny if Armie Hammer was reinstated and got a second chance at a really big movie. I don’t know Return of the Lone Ranger or something. And then on the second day of filming he ate Johnny Depp.
unlabelledView post →I find it amusing that a TV show using the Lone Ranger engine for a Butch Cassidy episode is much closer to the 1899 period of Union Pacific than the big budget film from 1969.
unlabelledView post →Also listening to the episode whilst I was working today and @smershpod.com 's take on The Lone Ranger was funnier and better than I suspect the film itself could ever be.
unlabelledView post →Chrstopher Lloyd portrays Butch Cavendish in the 1981 Legend of the Lone Ranger film. I'm not a fan of the movie (but its better than the 2013 Disney one), but I admit to 1) They goofed with handling Clayton Moore, and 2) I saw Lloyd as Reverand Jim from Taxi and tnjs was shocking
unlabelledView post →Working on a prologue thing for the Xeroverse where the Masked Ranger (basically the Lone Ranger) acts as a cosmic guide to an alternate Xero from the shitty 2004 movie (so basically imagine the protagonist of Hackers with superpowers). The Ranger is unflappable, but not for lack of trying by Doug.
unlabelledView post →For some reason, the Lone Ranger movie lost a lot of money! Could it possibly be that nobody under 75 or so had any experience with ANYTHING featuring that character?
unlabelledView post →"The Lone Ranger? That movie came out 6 years before 3!" "I don't know either kid"
unlabelledView post →It's also among the reasons why they spent a bunch of money trying to make stuff like Prince of Persia, John Carter of Mars and the Lone Ranger into action movie franchises before caving and just buying Marvel and Lucasfilm. [CONT]
unlabelledView post →I absolutely loved The Lone Ranger. Like yeah, Johnny Depp as Tonto and fucking Armie Hammer are crazy problematic casting, but that movie fucks.
unlabelledView post →Introduce yourself with One book 📚 Tonto and the Lone Ranger Fistfight in Heaven One movie 🎥 Enter the Dragon One album 💿 AC/DC Highway to hell One TV show 📺 Friends
unlabelledView post →✋ All of the above! Plus it’s like a concerted effort to ruin Millennial and Oregan Trail childhoods. Who do they think this movie is for? May it be the biggest box office snooze since The Lone Ranger.
unlabelledView post →The films are repeated in a tv serial edit Boyd pulls together a crew In June 1949 Boyd beats “The Lone Ranger” (itself commissioned as a reaction to the Hopalong film success) to air In it’s first year alone Boyd earns $800,000 Almost $11m to you and me
unlabelledView post →That 1987 episode of Once a Hero was taking inspiration from the real life issue with Clayton Moore, who was doing public appearances (and upholding the Code) as the Lone Ranger when a new movie slapped him with an injunction against wearing a mask! Way to piss off America.
unlabelledView post →Real talk, is the LONE RANGER remake the most problematic movie of the 21st century?
unlabelledView post →I love that booksale, go there once a month when they have it. I got what, 57 books? & 4 records including the soundtrack to one of the worst movies ever, The Legend of the Lone Ranger, from 1980, because I had no idea they even made such an album and I was an extra in that crazy film. Lasted 1 day.
unlabelledView post →10 years ago I had only just begun my beard journey. So here I am, wearing a promotional cowboy hat from the Lone Ranger film, cos I was working at a cinema at the time.
unlabelledView post →in both cases i guess they had slightly more cultural cachet in the US than here but it still feels weird that e.g. The Lone Ranger and Dark Shadows were considered goers as movie revivals in the 2010s.
unlabelledView post →@hellbentforletterbox.com Just rewatched The Lone Ranger and I will save my comments until after the episode. But I can say one thing, that movie is way too long.
unlabelledView post →I loved The Lone Ranger (2013), I wish all the Johnny Depp parts could be removed, but the rest of the movie was a banger. Really tremendous final action sequence.
unlabelledView post →Who knows how this happened. The only reason why Johnny Depp‘s version of The Lone Ranger got green lit is because the Studios wanted him in another Pirates of the Caribbean movie and that was the only way they could get him to do it.
unlabelledView post →The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981). They dubbed his voice in the movie. It was a major flop, and he never made another film.
unlabelledView post →Happy 80th birthday anniversary (2) Duel of the Sun Cannels Film Festival A Night in Casablanca film The Lone Ranger Children's Hour The Dark World All the Kings Men book skipping rope Party Pooper
unlabelledView post →I started reading Matt's essays in the late '90s. I'm writing a book on a filmmaker who's work I've come to fully appreciate thanks to Matt's piece on his movie, THE LONE RANGER. There are many treasures on sale in his store. Please give back to someone who's given so much support to others.
unlabelledView post →I once watched a short film where someone had removed everyone from an episode of The Lone Ranger except for The Lone Ranger, it was great!
unlabelledView post →NW: #TheLegendOfTheLoneRanger This is another childhood favorite that upon revisiting isn’t quite as good as remembered but still hits the right emotional notes, has a great John Barry score and I really love Christopher Lloyd’s cold blooded villain. #FilmSky #MovieSky #TheLoneRanger #WesternSky
unlabelledView post →After watching Hammer’s podcast, I watched The Lone Ranger. So much fun. Hammer was amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjFs...
unlabelledView post →I'm skipping ahead in my holiday movie marathon, watching The Legend of the Lone Ranger, a film that bombed when it hit in 1981. It's not as bad as all that, but mostly I like it for the soundtrack, sung by Merle Haggard. It's the only country music I've ever liked. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_6B...
unlabelledView post →Some of my favorite movies include music without words. William Tell Overture in the Johnny Depp version of The Lone Ranger was the best part of the movie in the last chase scene. It is a very exciting piece of music.
unlabelledView post →We were speculating the other day if THE LONE RANGER is the most-canceled movie of this century. (That said... I remember kind of digging the big action set pieces?)
unlabelledView post →Oh yeah I think there's a big difference between "why does a film about the Lone Ranger in 2013 exist" vs "why does The Lone Ranger (2013) exist"
unlabelledView post →If you're ever in the vicinity of Death Valley, there's a terrific little film museum in Lone Pine. Tremors, Gunga Din, Star Wars, Star Trek, Iron Man, Django Unchained. And the Lone Ranger, Rawhide, Wagon Train. All filmed there.
unlabelledView post →There’s all the obvious choices (Spielberg, Miller, Cameron), but I’ve gotta shout out Gore Verbinski. Whatever else you think of the movie, the train sequence from THE LONE RANGER is one of the best action setpieces of the 21st century.
unlabelledView post →🚨New! EP372🚨 The Lone Ranger is about as Boomer as it gets... so in 2013, Disney decided to do a megabudget tentpole actioner that leaned heavily into cannibalism and cultural appropriation. Would could have possibly gone wrong? www.maghuge.com #FilmSky #westerns #movies #film #podcast #funny
unlabelledView post →Took over a week break to prepare for Odyssey, so with that out of the way I can finally continue. Now this movie seems to be infamous due to being "soo bad" it's considered to be the start of Verbinski' downfall. He hasn't made a bad movie before, so to find out I'll watch- #NW The Lone Ranger
unlabelledView post →IIRC he started doing the Sauvage ads after he played Tonto in the Lone Ranger movie and claimed it was okay because he was something like 1/8th or 1/16 Native American.
unlabelledView post →That first Zorro movie was legit and makes me wish we got more of those classic swashbuckling and pulp heroes. The Shadow, Zorro, The Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, etc are all so great.
unlabelledView post →Question 9: Which movie holds the record for the biggest box office loss ever? Waterworld John Carter Poseidon The Lone Ranger #scottstrivia
unlabelledView post →There's not much love for The Legend of the Lone Ranger, the 1981 box office bomb and Golden Raspberry Award winner, but that just gives genuine memorabilia from the movie an extra special kind of aura, right?! So, here's an original promo badge!
unlabelledView post →This week on the TV/Movie Rewind podcast we discuss The Legend of The Lone Ranger Did it deserve to flop like it did? Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/0U1i... Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
unlabelledView post →The Lone Ranger was a shitty ass movie but man you really can't beat Hans Zimmer's composing
unlabelledView post →Okay, we were wrong about the Most Cursed Movies of the 80s. As much as The Legend of the Lone Ranger was a Massive Bomb, Inchon is so much worse. open.substack.com/pub/moviesof... #MovieSky #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →It's been 20 years since I first watched Battletruck. It's still wonderful. Army vs hippies movie about the Lone Ranger. m.imdb.com/title/tt0084...
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