#Pictures of the lone ranger movie#
John Hart, 91, the handsome and athletic actor who also starred in the 1940s movie serial “Jack Armstrong: The All-American Boy” and the 1950s TV series “Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans,” died Sunday at his home in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, said his wife, Beryl. There was another actor who played the Masked Man on “The Lone Ranger” television series, temporarily replacing Moore in the title role for 52 episodes beginning in 1952.
Those who say Clayton Moore are correct, at least partially. Here, the director laid six miles of track in New Mexico and built two locomotives - built the locomotives, I said, reportedly for authenticity's sake - so he could do things with real trains.Most TV fans of a certain age know the answer to the question, “Who played the Lone Ranger?” I mentioned Buster Keaton's train movie The General earlier, but when Keaton did stunts - playing pickup sticks with railway ties to clear the track in front of a moving locomotive, say - he actually did the stunts. The script fancies itself a critique of capitalism, a manifesto on manifest destiny, and a saga about silver mines and the slaughter of Native Americans.Īll very admirable, if not a great fit for scenes that involve Depp communing with snaggle-toothed cannibal bunny rabbits and taking a runaway train ride or six. The director's been saying his Lone Ranger is a sort of Don Quixote as seen through the eyes of a demented Sancho Panza, and as with that tale of a knight tilting at windmills, there's social commentary everywhere you look in this adventure. If Johnny Depp's in the film, can Helena Bonham Carter (and a bustier) be far behind? In this Ranger, she plays Red, the madam of a Texas brothel who offers aid and comfort to Tonto and his masked companion.Īudiences expecting a Pirates of the Panhandle from Verbinski - who paired with Depp on that swashbuckling franchise as well as on the ingeniously eccentric animated Western Rango - are in for some serious dry stretches. Think of this film's early going as an origin-story version of The Lone Ranger, in which we even get a backstory for the mask.
They'll bond, but not until the movie introduces Silver - a spirit horse who arrives to lift the ranger's soul literally from the grave. There are even antagonist-buddy routines for the lawman Ranger and the outlaw Indian that might have been lifted straight out of Laurel and Hardy.Īrmie Hammer plays the titular Ranger - well, Ranger-to-be when the film gets underway - as a noble do-gooder fresh out of law school, while Johnny Depp's Tonto is a face-painting "noble savage" (that's the movie's phrase) who's forever feeding the dead crow he wears on his head.
He's always been accompanied by Tonto, his Native American sidekick Silver his snow-white steed and the William Tell Overture.Īnd in the big-screen version out this Wednesday from Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski, he's also trailed by a wagon train's worth of classic-movie references: Monument Valley settings straight out of John Ford Westerns, steam-locomotive stunts cribbed from Buster Keaton's The General, a one-legged madam who'd seem Alice in Wonderland-ish even if she weren't being played by Helena Bonham Carter. There's never been anything very lone about the Lone Ranger.
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