The Lone Ranger (serial)

The Lone Ranger
Poster for Chapter 13 of The Lone Ranger
Directed byWilliam Witney
and John English
Screenplay byBarry Shipman
George Worthing Yates
Franklyn Adreon
Ronald Davidson
Lois Eby
Based onthe radio serial The Lone Ranger,
by Fran Striker
Produced bySol C. Siegel
(associate producer)
StarringThe Lone Ranger
A Man of Mystery
Silver — by Silver Chief
TontoChief Thunder-Cloud
CinematographyWilliam Nobles
Edited byHelene Turner
Edward Todd
Music byAlberto Colombo
(musical director)
Distributed byA Republic Production
Release dates
  • February 12, 1938 (1938-02-12) (serial)[1]
  • April 10, 1940 (1940-04-10) (feature)[1]
Running time
15 chapters (264 minutes) (serial)[1]
69 minutes (feature)[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$160,315 (negative cost: $168,117)[1] or $285,000[2]
Box office$1,150,000[2]
The Lone Ranger, Chapter 1: Hi-Yo Silver

The Lone Ranger is a 1938 American Republic Pictures movie serial based on The Lone Ranger radio program. It was the ninth of the sixty-six serials produced by Republic, the fourth Western (a third of Republic's serials were Westerns) and the first Republic serial release of 1938. The following year a sequel serial The Lone Ranger Rides Again was released. The fifteen chapters of the serial were condensed into the film Hi-Yo Silver, which was released in 1940.[3]

  1. ^ a b c d e Mathis, Jack (1995). Valley of the Cliffhangers Supplement. Jack Mathis Advertising. pp. 3, 10, 28–29. ISBN 0-9632878-1-8.
  2. ^ a b Wood, Thomas (December 2, 1946). "The Sad State of the Serial". New York Times. p. 51.
  3. ^ "Hi-Yo Silver". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on May 1, 2018. Retrieved April 30, 2018.