The Legend of the Lone Ranger - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[sylvia]

When the foreign dignitary is first in President Grant's train car, he is introduced to "Buffalo Bill" Cody, "Wild Bill" Hickok, and Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer, sitting across the booth from Grant. Grant jokingly orders Custer to get up and let the man take his seat, or he will have Custer transferred to Montana. Custer died in eastern Montana, in the Battle of Little Big Horn, also known as Custer's Last Stand.

[ruby]

Klinton Spilsbury got into a much publicized bar fight during filming.

[sandra]

Reportedly, casting The Lone Ranger and Tonto took eight months. In the end, two unknown actors were cast.

[sylvia]

Walter Coblenz said of this movie's failure: "Looking back, I feel that we were trying to please everyone, from six to sixty. It was too violent for little kids, and not sophisticated enough for an older audience. Maybe we were too intent on staying true to The Lone Ranger story."

[ray]

At the time, Director William A. Fraker hadn't directed a movie for eight years. After this movie flopped, Fraker moved to television, but continued to work as a Director of Photography on feature films.

[toni]

This movie opened the same weekend as Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).

[cassandra]

Publicity for this movie stated that The Lone Ranger hadn't appeared in a major movie for twenty-three years. The last time was The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958).

[liam]

According to cast and crew, Klinton Spilsbury demanded script changes because he had trouble delivering his lines. Spilsbury also demanded that this movie be shot in sequential order so he could better portray his character's arc.

[toni]

According to media reports, Klinton Spilsbury spent a great deal of time drinking, smoking, and brawling off-set during production.

[riley]

Post-production issues pushed the release date back six months.

[scarlett]

Christopher Lloyd and Matt Clark appeared in Back to the Future Part III (1990).

[sylvia]

Klinton Spilsbury was cast in the hopes that casting an unknown actor would pay off in the way that Christopher Reeve did in Superman (1978).

[veronica]

Producer Sir Lew Grade later wrote he thought the problem was the movie took an hour and ten minutes for The Lone Ranger to put on his mask. "The mistake was not dispensing with the legend in ten minutes, and getting on with the action much earlier on", he said.

[nora]

In its opening weekend, this expensive production was beaten by such lesser films as Richard Pryor's Bustin' Loose (1981) and Alan Alda's The Four Seasons (1981). The opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) three weeks later killed it off completely.