Editing Lone Ranger (section)

====''The Legend of the Lone Ranger'' (1981)====
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At the time of the 1981 release of the film ''[[The Legend of the Lone Ranger]]'', the company that owned the rights to the character, Wrather Corp., filed a lawsuit and obtained a court injunction to prevent Clayton Moore from appearing as the Lone Ranger,<ref name=Grant1985>{{cite news |last=Grant |first=Dell Omega |title=Clayton Moore Back In Mask |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1985/01/30/clayton-moore-back-in-mask/ |date=January 30, 1985 |department=Lifestyles |location=Chicago |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |agency=The New York Times News Service |access-date=July 22, 2014}}</ref> and then gave a cameo to his TV replacement, [[John Hart (actor)|John Hart]]. The film itself was a critical and commercial failure. It starred [[Klinton Spilsbury]] in his only motion picture appearance. His lines were overdubbed by [[James Keach]].<ref>{{cite news|title= The Legend of the Lone Ranger|work= DVD Talk|url= https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/34366/legend-of-the-lone-ranger-the/|access-date=November 1, 2010}}</ref> The part of Tonto was played by [[Michael Horse]].

Moore, who never appeared publicly without his mask, was enjoined in the lawsuit from wearing it and, in protest, he began wearing oversized sunglasses that were the approximate size and shape of the mask.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/29/arts/clayton-moore-television-s-lone-ranger-and-a-persistent-masked-man-dies-at-85.html?pagewanted=3&src=pm|title= Clayton Moore, Television's Lone Ranger And a Persistent Masked Man, Dies at 85|access-date=January 14, 2010 |work= [[The New York Times]] |date= December 29, 1999| first=Richard | last=Goldstein}}</ref> In a sequence in the movie, John Reid, a newly graduated attorney, is travelling west in a stagecoach to meet his brother. Another passenger announces his intent to make his fortune from his invention of sunglasses. The stage is robbed and the inventor killed. As John Reid lays the dead man on the floor with the broken dark glasses, yet another passenger says, "So much for American opportunity."