THE LOST REPUBLIC
SERIAL NOW AVAILABLE COMPLETE
AND VIEWABLE WITHOUT SUBTITLES FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE
1939!
RESTORED EDITION
REPUBLIC 1939
15 Chapters
Directed by
William Witney, John English
Music
by
William Lava
Robert
Livingston
as The Lone Ranger
Billy
Bletcher
as the voice of the Lone Ranger
Chief
Thunder Cloud
as Tonto
Duncan
Renaldo
as Juan Vasquez
Additional Cast:
Ralph Dunn as Bart Dolan, J. Farrell MacDonald as Craig
Dolan, Jinx Falken as Sue, William Gould as Jed Scott,
Rex Lease as Evans, Ted Mapes as Meritt, Henry Otho as Pa
Daniels, John Beach as Hardin, Glenn Strange as Thorne,
Stanley Blystone as Murdock, Edwin ParKer as Hank, Al
Taylor as Colt, Carleton Young as Logan, Ernie Adams as
Grover, Eddie Dean as Cooper, Forrest Taylor as judge,
Silver Chief as Silver
After linking up with a wagon train, the Lone Ranger
finds himself in the middle of a cattlemen/nesters
struggle. Assumed incorrectly to be the bully boys of all
the ranchers, but secretly under the command of Bart
Dolan, a rancher's nephew, are the Black Raiders. False
accusations, kidnaping, fake kidnaping, attempted
lynching, ballot box theft, and the like abound till the
closing episodes, which find the settlers gathered inside
a fortress for a final showdown. In this serial the Lone
Ranger has a second partner in Juan Valdez, who at first
wrongly believes the Lone Ranger to have murdered his
brother, then fights beside the Masked Rider of the
Plains. Unusually, the Lone Ranger appears frequently
without a mask in this story, using the alias Bill
Andrews.
-- Restored chapter openings and beginnings in English
-- Reconstructed cliffhanger endings
-- Reconstructed chapter recaps
-- Reconstructed chapter opening sequences
-- Restored picture, including removal of ALL Spanish subtitles
-- Noise-reduced sound.
The digital transfer was created from the only known source print. This is the highest quality presentation of the existing film material and its first digital transfer and contrary to previous overly conservative reports, we now will be able to present this serial on DVD fully restored and ENTIRELY WITHOUT SUBTITLES.
In addition to the complete 15 chapter serial the DVD also contains the rare Lone Ranger home movie cartoon and 30 minutes of on-camera commentary by serial authors Len Kohl and Richard Hurst and Squadron members Zorro, HiYo Silver, Durango Kid, Brick Bradford, Barcroft, Dr. Satan, Daredevil, Ace Drummond, Red Racer, Dr. Grood and Pa Stark ( filmed at SerialFest 2007)!
DVD Contents
Chapter 1: The Lone Ranger Returns
Chapter 2: Masked Victory
Chapter 3: The Black Raiders Strike
Chapter 4: The Cavern of Doom
Chapter 5: Agents of Deceit
Chapter 6: The Trap
Chapter 7: Lone Ranger at Bay
Chapter 8: Ambush
Chapter 9: Wheels of Doom
Chapter 10: The Dangerous Captive
Chapter 11: Death Below
Chapter 12: Blazing Peril
Chapter 13: Exposed
Chapter 14: Besieged
Chapter 15: Frontier Justice
Lone Ranger Cartoon
Still/Memorabilia Gallery/Serial Author & Fan Commentary
The restoration is now complete & DVDs are shipping now.
Plot summary by R W Stedman
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NOTE: These samples were heavily compressed in preparation for online viewing and are far inferior in quality to what you will see in the actual DVD.
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SAMPLE FRAMES FROM THE LONE RANGER RIDES AGAIN DVD
This DVD has been painstakingly restored from the only existing master of THE LONE RANGER RIDES AGAIN, which was fully subtitled in Spanish. Chapter openings, title cards, recaps, cliffhangers, and end titles have been fully restored or re-created for this edition. Subtitles have been removed using a technique which borrows visual information from existing unsubtitled film frames so some artifacts and letterboxing are sometimes present in repaired sequences (and sometimes they are completely invisible!).
Subtitles removed from the bottom fifth of this frame by pasting over image
information from succeeding frames. Sometimes the blend is perfect and
completely invisible, sometimes it is slightly noticeable (note the slightly dark
line above at the level of the actor's shoulder)
A frame before subtitle removal
The same frame successfully (and invisibly) restored with the pasteover technique.
The Lone Ranger rides again!
Another pasteover (at the level of just above the Ranger's elbow)
Some brief shots which originally included 3-line subtitles are sometimes presented slightly letterboxed. This technique is used very rarely, in perhaps 1% of subtitled scenes.
This restoration is designed to resemble the original theatrical release of THE LONE RANGER RIDES AGAIN as much as possible using elements which still exist.