The Lone Ranger

[Geoff]

As a child I was brought up by going to the pictures on a Saturday afternoon and we use to watch the Lone Ranger, the cheers from all the kids was brilliant and after the pictures finished we would get on our pretend horses and gallop down the road back home, oh those were the days,

So when we were out yesterday we saw a film called the Lone Ranger, so in the basket it went, thinking it was going to fetch out my thoughts of my earlier days, so last night we watched the film well I was in stitches through this film, Johnny Depp plays tonto and all I can say it was nothing like the real thing but I enjoyed it all the way through, this is a Disney film so you know its going to be safe for young kids over 12, well done to the film crew and all involved I am sure I will watch this again and again, plus it has Locomotives in it as well.

The film is farcical but brilliant.

[joe cassidy]

If you're looking for another film in the same genre with trains try "Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter".

It came out about the same time as the "serious" film with D. Day Lewis but didn't get as many oscars.

Best regards,


Joe

[Tom U]

I am a great fan of Johnney Depp, but this Lone Ranger one left me cold...I abandoned it half way through.  I think I could not get past the bird on his head 

[Malc]

The definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger. For our younger readers, this was a 1950/60s TV series starring Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels.

[Bealman]

Thought that was Champion the Wonder Horse

Nah.... that was Frankie Lane 

Not a lot between them, when I think about it

[Agrippa]

The Lone Ranger shot and killed Tonto. He found out what Kemo Sabe meant....

[Bealman]

"Looks like we're surrounded, Tonto"

"Whaddya mean WE, paleface?".....

[Agrippa]

Tonto laying down one ear to the ground says "Stagecoach just passed by, two white horses,
two brown horses, driver has big moustache and black hat "

Lone Ranger says " That's incredible, how can you tell? "

Tonto says " ******* just ran me down!"

[DWS]

This post took me back to my childhood, The Lone ranger was my favourite TV show.  That's me (front row) in 1958 as The Lone Ranger at a village fete with my mate Tonto at my side 

[Caz]

Ah, how cute.   

[Jools]

The jonny depo movie was panned by the critics when it came out,  when I finally got around to watching it on  blu-ray, I was really impressed with it also.

Its very good, but also very, very long for a Hollywood action/comedy flick, so if anyone gets it off the back of this recommendation, make sure you've got hands on the remote ready to pause for loo breaks!

[Bealman]

This post took me back to my childhood, The Lone ranger was my favourite TV show.  That's me (front row) in 1958 as The Lone Ranger at a village fete with my mate Tonto at my side 

Who IS that masked man 

[steam-driven boy]

Hi,

The jonny depo movie was panned by the critics when it came out,  when I finally got around to watching it on  blu-ray, I was really impressed with it also.

Very good film 
Whilst Johnny Depp may arguably have been in a very few poor movies, he has easily been the best thing in them - critics generally have been known to have a different agenda to the public when they have their own particular axes to grind    They may have hurt the 'box office', happily I get the feeling Mr Depp will continue his own idiosyncratic projects regardless 

L.A. Without a Map - Johnny Depp Clips
Here's that late '70s typically irreverent take on the 'relationship' between The Lone Ranger and Tonto:

http://youtu.be/hchOYs_d_Bw
Possibly more likely to be considered 'politically incorrect' these days than too 'naughty' for the BBC 

Regards, Gerry 

[DWS]

As a follow-up to my post and photo, on the 7th August 1958 The Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) made a visit to Cardiff as a special guest of James Howell department store.  My father took me into Cardiff to see him, I was wearing my 'Lone Ranger' outfit (as were many other children).  We queued for two or three hours outside the store and I can still remember the huge crowds that turned out to see him.  We did eventually get a glimpse of The Lone Ranger as he passed through the crowds into the store, I remember sitting on my dad's shoulders so that I could see over the heads of the crowd.  The following link is to a photograph showing the crowds outside James Howell that day, when you click on the link, and enlarge the photo, you can just make out The Lone Ranger wearing his white Stetson approaching the store entrance.  I'm in there somewhere!

I think the crowds in the photo illustrate just how popular The Lone Ranger was back then.  "Hi Ho Silver Away"!

http://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t31.0-8/622495_10151003355062183_1030934239_o.jpg

[Malc]

Just goes to show how popular the series was.