The Legend of the Lone Ranger

The Legend of the Lone Ranger is a 1981 American western film directed by William A. Fraker and starring Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse and Christopher Lloyd.

The outlaw Butch Cavendish Christopher Lloyd ambushes a party of Texas Rangers, killing all except John Reid Klinton Spilsbury who is rescued by his old childhood Comanche friend, Tonto Michael Horse. When he recovers from his wounds, he dedicates his life to fighting the crime that Cavendish represents. To this end, John becomes the great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger. With the help of Tonto, the pair go to rescue President Grant Jason Robards when Cavendish takes him hostage.Many attempts had been made to create a Lone Ranger movie that would appeal to a modern audience, including making Tonto an equal partner and mentor to the Lone Ranger. In the movie, Tonto teaches the hero how to shoot and is mainly responsible for training Silver, the heros horse. Moreover, Tonto speaks whole sentences, while in the radio and TV series he had quite a limited vocabulary. In another change to established canon, Reid is at first not an actual Texas Ranger but a civilian observer and younger brother of the Rangers captain who survives Cavendishs massacre.citation needed ........

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