Production
Many attempts had been made to create a Lone Ranger movie that would appeal to a modern audience, including making Tonto an equal partner, and mentor to the Lone Ranger. In the movie Tonto teaches the hero how to shoot, and is also (mainly) responsible for training Silver. (Moreover, Tonto speaks whole sentences, while in the radio and TV series he had quite a limited vocabulary.) Also, in another change to established canon, Reid is (at first) not an actual Texas Ranger but a civilian observer (and younger brother of the Rangers' captain) who survives Cavendish's massacre.
This film was shot in New Mexico, Utah, and California. Two of the movie's four screenwriters, Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, previously created the hit TV series Charlie's Angels; they also worked together on another hit series, Mannix.
The movie's ballad-narration, The Man In The Mask, was composed by Dean Pitchford of Footloose and Sing fame.
Klinton Spilsbury's dialogue was overdubbed for the entire movie by actor James Keach.
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