Posted in 1956, Clayton Moore, The Lone Ranger on April 10, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Bob Madison (who moseys through this blog quite a bit) and I were emailing back and forth yesterday about Clayton Moore and The Lone Ranger. I remembered this page (inside back cover) from the 1956 Dell Giant comic The Lone Ranger Movie Story and thought it was worth sharing.
The article is called “Filming The Lone Ranger Movie.” Click and it gets large enough that even I can read it.
Posted in 1956, Clayton Moore, The Lone Ranger on January 31, 2013 | 4 Comments »
The Lone Ranger made its radio debut 80 years ago today. To mark the occasion, here’s a lobby card from the 1956 feature version of the TV series starring Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels — a modest little Western I’ve loved since I was a kid.
Posted in 1959, 20th Century-Fox, Clayton Moore, DVD reviews, releases, TV, etc., Fred MacMurray, Lippert/Regal, Television, The Lone Ranger on September 18, 2012 | 13 Comments »
Here’s Gloria Talbott, Fred MacMurray and the great John Dierkes in The Oregon Trail (1959), which after much speculation and lots of blog-commenting time, is finally available from the Fox Cinema Archives MOD program. As one of the CinemaScope films Lippert Pictures produced for 20th Century-Fox in the late 50s (The Fly was one, too), it’s something I’m looking forward to.
Though I’m thrilled about this release, which has been officially listed as widescreen, I have a gripe. If what you see at left is indeed what the packaging looks like, I’m disappointed. A quick Google image search turns up better stuff than that — in color, too. Maybe they should reach out to the collector community — namely, us — for access to better material.
Thanks to John Knight for the tip.
On a completely unrelated note: my daughter and I watched a couple episodes of The Lone Ranger last night — one with James H. Griffith and the other with Hank Worden. What a treat.
Posted in 1956, 1958, Clayton Moore, The Lone Ranger on September 14, 2012 | 10 Comments »
Clayton Moore
September 14, 1914 – December 28, 1999
Clayton Moore spent so much time saying hello to kids and signing autographs, and I never got to meet him. What a drag.
To me, The Lone Ranger TV show and the features (The Lone Ranger, 1956, and 1958′s The Lone Ranger And The Lost City Of Gold) are pure joy. There are so many ways you could criticize them, yet they’re all perfect.
Clayton Moore (from his autobiography, I Was That Masked Man): “The greatest thing about working on the feature was that the pace was much more leisurely. On the series, we would shoot at least 12 pages of script a day, sometimes as much as 15 to 18, but for the film, we would shoot maybe four or five. That’s still working pretty fast compared to some productions, but it seemed like a vacation to us.”
Of course, he did so much more over the course of his career, like those great Republic serials, but how can you top being The Lone Ranger?
Posted in Clayton Moore, The Lone Ranger on December 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas. Hope Santa brings you the cap guns and John Wayne DVDs you asked for.
This ornament graces my tree every year. It always reminds me of the Super 8mm print of The Lone Ranger I got one year — and that this is the time for Jay Thomas to hop on Late Night With David Letterman to tell his terrific Lone Ranger/Clayton Moore story, which you can see here.
