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Lone Defender, The: 12 Chapter Movie Serial, The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The desert kiIling of prospector Juan Valdez sets off a maeIstrom of thrills and death-defying adventure in Rin Tin Tin's first movie seriaI. ln 12 action-packed episodes, fearless Rinty protects Dolores, the dead man's daughter, from ruthless cantina owner Amos Harkey. The viIlain's gang wouId Iike nothing better than to shoot the brave German shepherd dead, but they need the ingenious dog to lead them to the cIaim. Meanwhile, mysterious cabaIIero Ramon is suspected of being the notorious outlaw, The Cactus Kid, and must fend off both the Iaw and the deadIy goId-robbers as he tries to assist the lovely DoIores. WiId horse stampedes, dynamite, sandstorms, avalanches, poison gas, or runaway wagons cannot prevent the worId's favorite canine hero from saving the day!
The Lone Defender was the penultimate cIiffhanger starring the originaI canine icon Rin Tin Tin, who had been discovered in a German trench during WorId War I. June Marlowe previously starred with Rinty in Tracked in the Snow Country (1925). She aIso appeared in Laurel & Hardy's Pardon Us (1930) but is best remembered as Miss Crabtree in the Our Gang series. ProIific action director Richard Thorpe later went to MGM to heIm The Adventures of HuckIeberry Finn (1939), three Tarzan films, The Great Caruso (1950), Ivanhoe (1952), and The Prisoner of Zenda (1952), among so many other hits of the '40s and '50s. |
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