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The Lost Episodes:
"Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear," and enjoy this action-packed compilation of rare and lost footage featuring the most famous Lone Ranger of them all, Clayton Moore, including:
Highlights of the Lone Ranger's first live action appearance in a 1938 serial with Lee Powell
The First Lone Ranger cartoon, produced in the late '30s and unseen for over 50 years
Historic TV Promo spots advertising the Lone Ranger series, which have not aired for decades
Two complete television episodes, "The Masked Rider and "Message from Abe," both shown with original commercials and network spots
Rare TV commercials with Clayton Moore, most of which have not aired for 20 to 40 years
Vintage theatrical coming attraction trailers not shown since their original release
A Short promoting the sale of savings bonds and stamps never shown in a theater or on TV
Hi-Yo Silver:
Lee Powell is the legendary Lone Ranger in this 1940 feature version of the 1938 Republic serial, which marked the masked lawman's first live-action appearance after starring in a radio serial and a comic strip. Powell plays one of five men who may be the Ranger, and who die one by one while the villains try to figure out which of the men survived the massacre and was nursed back to health by Tonto (Chief Thundercloud). Among the most famous serials in history, this was directed by acknowledged chapterplay champions William Whitney and John English, and spawned a sequel, The Lone Ranger Rides Again, the following year.
Legion Of Old Timers/ Pete And Pedro/ Old Joe's Sister:
The sole survivor of a posse of Texas Rangers ambushed by a gang of desperadoes, John Reid was left for dead and nursed back to health by Tonto (Jay Silverheels), a friendly Indian whom he had once helped. With a black mask and silver bullets from the mine he discovered with his brother, one of the slain Rangers, Reid sets out astride his horse, Silver, to right the wrongs of the West as The Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore)
Red Devers (Norman Willlis) tries to steal the Circle K Ranch from Bob Kittredge (Star Trek's DeForest Kelley), until the disguised Ranger and foreman Banty Bishop (Emmett Lynn) form a "Legion of Old Timers." Then, "Pete and Pedro" (Rufe Davis, Don Diamond) join in to help lovely young Ellen Carter (Sheila Ryan) save her ranch from "the land-hungry hands of unscrupulous, violent men," led by Jeff Grant (John Parrish). Escaped killer Biff Baker (Lester Sharpe) shoots and impersonates hermit Joe Peters (Joel Friedkin) to seek his hidden gold, but must fool "Old Joe's Sister" Abby (Anne O'Neal), who hasn
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