It’s April! In celebration of April Fools’ month, every week this month we at the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse will be talking about our favorite “bad” movies. Movies we love, but that other people may not have such a favorable opinion of.
This week, we’re chatting about the 1981 Western vigilante bomb, The Legend of the Lone Ranger! After the blockbuster successes of Star Wars and Superman, the studios went on a frantic search for any nostalgic “heroic” property they could get their hands on. Eventually the gaze of the studios fell upon The Lone Ranger, whose adventures were originally detailed in radio shows, dime store novels, and finally television. When the time came for Kemosabe to get the big screen treatment the producers of the film decided to cast a complete unknown, Klinton Spilsbury, for the part of the titular Ranger. Unfortunately, the big screen adaptation of the Lone Ranger’s adventures didn’t sit well with critics or audiences at the time. On this episode of the podcast, Kristian has an old fashioned showdown with Joe Slepski (of the Joe on Joe Podcast) and Keith Howell on whether The Legend of the Lone Ranger is as bad as its reputed to be. Is Klinton Spilsbury the worst actor to every grace the silver screen? Is Tonto more than a badly rendered Native American stereotype? Should The Lone Ranger have shown up earlier in the film? The answer to these questions and more await you on this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast!
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