THE LONE RANGER (1938)
BLU-RAY UPGRADE
✦✦✦✦ (15 Chapters)
Featuring Lee Powell and Herman Brix

The incomparable Serial Squadron restoration of this long-unseen key serial which was a blockbuster success on its original release. The first appearance of the "origin of the Lone Ranger," and the prototype in many ways for the TV series. Upgraded to Blu-Ray for smoother motion and sharper picture, deflickered, with dirt and scratch removal, and stabilized with state of the art new video programs and plug-ins.

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THE LONE RANGER
Blu-Ray

The Lone Ranger Blu-Ray✦✦✦✦ (Republic, 15 Chapters)
Lee Powell, Chief Thunder Cloud D: William Witney
Stunts by Yakima Canutt
Version 3 of the restoration of the serial with opening titles and recaps in English, no subtitles, all missing footage and audio restored and now new digital deflickering, visual noise reduction, and stabilization.

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The sole survivor of a massacre of Texas Rangers, Tonto, an Indian who rescued him, and four other Rangers hunt down a schemer posing as a government official who wants to take over Texas with his small army of mercenaries. The five all fight valiantly but over the course of the serial four are killed in the line of duty, leaving only one to finish the fight -- The Lone Ranger.

Our restoration of THE LONE RANGER (1938), long-considered a lost serial in complete form, is the only complete unsubtitled version of the serial available and the definitive edition of this classic serial.
Influences: Buck Jones (costume and horse named Silver)
Influenced: The Lone Ranger radio and TV shows -- this serial introduced the massacre origin story of the character and rescue by Tonto as well as music and costumes used afterward in Lone Ranger programs.

The 8 minutes of missing audio has been covered by new dubbing, all titles and recaps are presented in English and the picture element is composed of 99% high-resolution footage.

This is the second upgrade of the original restoration which now includes a new sharper transfer of footage from an additional source and is stabilized, deflickered, dust-busted and visually noise-reduced with new technological state of the art video programs and plug-ins not available until very recently and is a noticeable improvement over previous versions. It is presented also in HD for the first time so will have smoother motion as well.