The Lone Defender

The Lone Defender is a 1930 American Pre-Code Mascot movie serial starring Rin Tin Tin. This was Mascot's first all sound serial (the second to have any sound at all, after the partial sound in The King of the Kongo). This was Rin Tin Tin's first serial at Mascot, after being dropped by Warner Bros. when they decided animal pictures would not work with "Talkies". He also starred in the later serial The Lightning Warrior, which would be his last appearance (he died in 1932).[1] Mascot made a third serial, The Adventures of Rex and Rinty, but that dog was Rin Tin Tin Jr.

The Lone Defender
Poster for chapter two of the serial
Directed byRichard Thorpe
Produced byNat Levine
Written byWilliam Presley Burt
Bennett Cohen
Harry Fraser
StarringRin Tin Tin
Walter Miller
June Marlowe
Josef Swickard
Buzz Barton
Lee Shumway
Music byLee Zahler
CinematographyBenjamin Kline
Edited byWyndham Gittens
Distributed byMascot Pictures
Release date
1930
Running time
12 chapters (217 min)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$40,000 (estimated)

The plot revolves around Rin Tin Tin as "Rinty" and a secret gold mine fought over by the criminal "The Cactus Kid" and the legitimate owners. Material from this serial was edited into a feature film version and released under the same name in 1934.

Plot

Prospector Juan Valdez is murdered by The Cactus Kid and his gang in an attempt to discover the location of his gold mine. Valdez's dog Rinty witnesses the murder and can also lead the gang to the mine, making him the villain's target throughout the serial. In addition Rinty must help Valdez's daughter Dolores legitimately find and claim the mine while being blamed for the wolf attacking local livestock.

The mysterious figure of Ramon is constantly on hand, overhearing pieces of the villain's conversations. He appears to be another bandit but his actions seem to contradict that.

It is revealed during the course of the serial that Ramon is in fact Marco Roberto, an agent of the Justice Department.

Cast

Production

Stunts

Chapter titles
  1. Mystery of the Desert
  2. The Fugitive
  3. Jaws of Peril
  4. Trapped
  5. Circle of Death
  6. Surrounded by the Law
  7. The Ghost Speaks
  8. The Brink of Destruction
  9. The Avalanche
  10. Fury of the Desert
  11. Cornered
  12. Vindicated

Source:[2]

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gollark: Click the little page-with-folded-corner button.
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gollark: Anyway, you can also set it to fullscreen and turn off integer scaling, but then it's blurry and you can't modify single pixels easily.
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See also

References
  1. https://www.npr.org/2012/01/09/144319530/rin-tin-tin-a-silent-film-star-on-four-legs
  2. Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 202. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
Preceded by
The King of the Kongo (1929)		 Mascot Serial
The Lone Defender (1930)		 Succeeded by
The Phantom of the West (1931)
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