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Legend of the Lone Ranger [DVD] [1981] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Klinton Spilsbury (Actor), Michael Horse (Actor), William A. Fraker (Director) | Format: DVD
2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse, Christopher Lloyd, Matt Clark, Juanin Clay
  • Directors: William A. Fraker
  • Writers: Ben Roberts, Fran Striker, George W. Trendle, Gerald B. Derloshon, Ivan Goff
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Lions Gate
  • DVD Release Date: 26 Aug 2008
  • Run Time: 98 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001ARDC16
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 141,296 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars More bronze than Silver 20 Feb 2004
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAME TOP 50 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
The early Eighties saw a slew of Westerns greenlit by studios, many hoping to ride on the coat-tails of the anticipated success of Heaven's Gate (who knew it would become a by-word for box-office disaster?) - The Long Riders, Cattle Annie and Little Britches, Barbarosa and this attempt by Lew Grade's ITC to start a new screen franchise. On paper it wasn't without promise. Legendary cinematographer William A. Fraker had directed the excellent Lee Marvin-Jack Palance Western Monte Walsh, while co-writers Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts had written a number of James Cagney films (including the classic White Heat) and William Roberts had written the wonderful comic Western The Sheepman as well as contributing to The Magnificent Seven. It even boasted a John Barry score.

The result was a massive and critically reviled box-office disaster in its day - it ran a single week in a handful of UK cinemas - not least because of one of the greatest PR fiascos in film history when the producers outraged America by taking out a court order to stop original Lone Ranger star Clayton Moore from wearing his mask at charity events. The stink was so great that even the same producers' Raise the Titanic grossed more. So, a quarter century on, is this little-seen, never revived Western really that bad?

Not exactly: it's just not very good, slow and pedestrian for much of its running time. It takes nearly an hour of drawn-out backstory for John Reid to don his mask and become the Lone Ranger, and once he does, he doesn't exactly do much. Indeed, there's little action in the film - a stagecoach robbery at the beginning, a good canyon shootout in the middle and a lot of explosions at the end. Unfortunately, it doesn't find that much interesting to fill in the gaps with.... Read more ›
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Where does the Lone Ranger bring his rubbish? 12 Sep 2009
By Quackser
Format:DVD
Almost bad enough to be fascinating, this misconceived shambles of a movie remains defiantly inert. Presumably conceived in the rush to get the next pulp/comic book hero onto the screen in the wake of "Superman the Movie", the film betrays many interesting elements and rarely rises to a canter, much less a triumphant gallop.

It's directed, insofar as it's directed at all, by William Fraker, whose reputation rests securely on his excellent cinematography for such westerns as "Rancho Deluxe" and "Tombstone", as well as his direction of the second-to-none classic "Monte Walsh". In short, this guy knows how to make a cowboy movie. But "The Legend of the Lone Ranger" shows every evidence of having been panic-strickenly post-produced to death as the realisation sank in that something had gone badly wrong. What we have here seems to be the remains of a longer movie. I've no idea if that longer movie would have been any better than the one finally issued, but it hardly makes sense to saw the ship in half in order to keep it from sinking.

A huge blunder was made early on, with the casting of Klinton Spillsbury as the eponymous masked man. He simply isn't there. Again, the producers were probably thinking that, hey, Christopher Reeve was an unknown and look how well Superman did. But Reeve had a modicum of talent and was perfectly cast to take advantage of that talent. Poor old hapless Spillsbury suffers from possibly the worst case of Orlando Bloom syndrome I've come across, in that the eye just wanders away from him and settles on details of decor and landscape, enjoying the vista of Monument Valley or the tilt of Richard Farnsworth's hat; it's impossible to focus on this guy.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars More bronze than Silver 24 Jun 2011
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAME TOP 50 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
The early Eighties saw a slew of Westerns greenlit by studios, many hoping to ride on the coat-tails of the anticipated success of Heaven's Gate (who knew?) - The Long Riders, Cattle Annie and Little Britches, Barbarosa and this doomed attempt by Lew Grade's ITC to start a new screen franchise. On paper it wasn't without promise. Legendary cinematographer William A. Fraker had directed the excellent Lee Marvin-Jack Palance Western Monte Walsh, while co-writers Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts had written a number of James Cagney films (including the classic White Heat) and William Roberts had written the wonderful comic Western The Sheepman as well as contributing to The Magnificent Seven. It even boasted a John Barry score.

The result was a massive and critically reviled box-office disaster in its day, not least because of one of the greatest PR fiascos in film history when the producers outraged America by taking out a court order to stop original Lone Ranger star Clayton Moore from wearing his mask at charity events. (Just to add insult to injury, they cast Moore's one season replacement John Hart in a cameo.) The stink was so great that even the same producers' Raise the Titanic grossed more. So, a quarter century on, is this little-seen, never revived Western really that bad?

Not exactly: it's just not very good, slow and pedestrian for much of its running time. It takes nearly an hour of drawn-out backstory for John Reid to don his mask and become the Lone Ranger, and once he does, he doesn't exactly do much. Indeed, there's little action in the film - a stagecoach robbery at the beginning, a good canyon shootout in the middle and a lot of explosions at the end. Unfortunately, it doesn't find that much interesting to fill in the gaps with.... Read more ›
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