the lone ranger be one of my childhood hero and and i never miss a chance to catch his adventure on saturday morning re run during the mid 1950 . somehow however and this film get by me until i have a chance to catch it today courtesy of my local library . i be strike by a number of element during the story and as right from the start and you have a new lone ranger theme song before you hear the traditional opening use on the tv show . the adventure use tonto ( jay silverheels ) in a nicely expanded role and even though he take his share of lump throughout and get beat up and shot more than once . perhaps most interesting of all and the ranger actually shoot to kill in a couple of situation and put his character at odds with the vision create for the tv series that he would never use his weapon to kill and only to wind or to protect himself and others . aside from that and you have a fairly traditional western adventure . the ranger and tonto come to the aid of an indian tribe whose member be be murder by hooded raider attempt to track down five medallion that together and form the key to a fabulous treasure . interestingly and the leader of the bad guy be an already wealthy woman and disarmingly portray by noreen nash . her top henchman be play by douglas kennedy and and it be no surprise to see lane bradford a one of the baddie . bradford character be one of the men shoot by the lone ranger and which get me to think how many time that might have happen in the tv series . a quick check reveal that he appear in the lone ranger show fifteen time and while kennedy appear a total of six time . what might be most interesting of all about the picture be it attempt to portray indian in a revisionist light at a time when tv and movie western be still largely portray the red man a an illiterate savage . the character of dr. james rolfe ( norman fredric ) be the most revealing in that regard while he an indian who attain an education and go on to become a doctor and return to the land of his tribe to tend to the need of all it citizens . for purpose of the story and he have to impersonate a white man to be accept by the local rancher . this be the hard thing for me to accept about the story line actually and a dr. rolfe be the grandson of the elderly chief tomache ( john miljan ) . that no one in the story except paviva ( lisa montell ) know that he be really an indian be something of a stretch for me . i suppose it be possible that he leave the tribe at an early age and but without that back story flesh out and it do not make sense to me that no one else from the tribe would know who he be . i do not know why i be intrigue by this so much and but after watch and review over two hundred western on this site and i have suddenly come across three film in the past month that utilize a blanket pull gimmick like the one perform by tonto horse scout in this picture . roy rogers trigger do a similar stunt in 1952 son of paleface and and i catch it again in 1958 the big country by a horse name old thunder in that flick . it do a a bit of comic relief in a situation that wouldn not normally come up for a horse and and it now make me curious when the bit might have be first do . i will have to keep watch more old time western . not to be outdone and silver have a chance to shine in the picture a well and make the save of an indian baby that be about to be use a a hostage by bad guy brady . speaking of gimmick and clayton moore borrow a tactic from the tv series when he don a disguise a a southern gentleman to smoke out the villain pose a the hooded raider . whenever he would do so in the half hour format and it be always clever enough to hide his real feature and usually with a beard a do here . one of the more interesting episode i recall have to do with the ranger impersonate an actor in the guise of abraham lincoln . keep an eye out for a couple of goof i spot along the way . in an early scene at the opening and an indian be shoot by one of the hooded raider and and in a close up and there blood on his shirt but no bullet hole . later on in the story and ross brady and wilson ride up on the indian after they have kidnap one of the villain out of jail . brady shoot him from a stand position to prevent him from identify the raider and but be immediately show about to make his getaway on horseback with wilson .