i guess it wasn not entirely the filmmaker fault though . the film suffer from the unimaginably stupid decision to tell clayton moore ( who have do the role in the 1950 and be the lone ranger u old folk grow up with ) he couldn not wear the mask in public . now mind you and the poor guy wasn not make all that much money do so and and it wasn not like he be go to take anything away from this film and but the whole thing seem . gratuitous . the other thing the film suffer from ( besides a lead man whose voice be so awful they have to overdub it ) be that fact that westerns weren not so hip in 1981. john wayne be dead and we have just be subject to a decade long major liberal guilt trip about how the west be build on genocide of the native american . ( that and blaze saddle send up the whole genre . the campfire scene . enough say . ) hollywood shy away from western and because science fiction be cool then . the one scene that underscore it be when after rescue the drunken president grant ( and seriously and i would have let grant stay with the bad guy . the country would have be good off . ) grant ask tonto what his reward should be honor your treaty with my people . yeah and right and like that be go to happen .