Rin Tin Tin - The Lone Defender (1930) DVD9 - Disk 1 - Western Serial - 12 Chapters [DDR]
The Lone Defender is a 1930 American 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. Mascot made a third serial, The Adventures of Rex and Rinty, but that Rin Tin Tin was not the same dog.
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.
CAST:-
Rin Tin Tin as "Rinty", Juan Valdez's dog
Walter Miller as Marco Roberto, Justice Department Agent posing as the
"Mysterious Figure", Ramon
June Marlowe as Dolores Valdez, Juan Valdez's daughter
Josef Swickard as Juan Valdez, Prospector who owns a secret gold mine
Buzz Barton as Buzz, Ramon's sidekick
Lee Shumway as Amos Harkey, the villainous cantina owner
Julia Bejarano as Maria, the Dueña
Lafe McKee as Sheriff Billings
Arthur Morrison as Limpy
Frank Lanning as Burke, Prospector and Juan Valdez's partner
Bob Kortman as Jenkins, one of the Cactus Kid's Henchmen
Victor Metzetti as Red, one of the Cactus Kid's Henchmen
Otto Metzetti as Red's Partner
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Produced by Nat Levine
Written by William Presley Burt, Bennett Cohen, Harry Fraser
CHAPTERS:-
01. Mystery of the Desert
02. The Fugitive
03. Jaws of Peril
04. Trapped
05. Circle of Death
06. Surrounded by the Law
07. The Ghost Speaks
08. The Brink of Destruction
09. The Avalanche
10. Fury of the Desert
11. Cornered
12. Vindicated
RIN TIN TIN :- The Story
Rin Tin Tin (September 1918 – August 10, 1932) was a male German Shepherd dog rescued from a World War I battlefield by an American soldier, Lee Duncan, who nicknamed him "Rinty". Duncan trained Rin Tin Tin (often hyphenated as Rin-Tin-Tin) and obtained silent film work for the dog. Rin Tin Tin was an immediate box office success and went on to appear in 27 Hollywood films, gaining worldwide fame. Along with the earlier canine film star Strongheart, Rin Tin Tin was responsible for greatly increasing the popularity of German Shepherds as family pets. The immense profitability of his films made Warner Bros. studios a success and helped advance the career of Darryl F. Zanuck. In 1929, Rin Tin Tin may have received the most votes for the first Academy Award for Best Actor, but the Academy determined that a human should win.
After Rin Tin Tin died in 1932, the name was given to several related German Shepherds featured in fictional stories on film, radio, and television. Rin Tin Tin, Jr. appeared in some serialized films but was not as talented as his father. Rin Tin Tin III, said to be Rin Tin Tin's grandson but probably only distantly related, helped promote the military use of dogs during World War II. Rin Tin Tin III also appeared in a film with child actor Robert Blake in 1947.
Duncan groomed Rin Tin Tin IV for the 1950s television series The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, but the dog performed poorly in a screen test and was replaced in the TV show by trainer Frank Barnes's dogs, primarily one named Flame, Jr., called JR, with the public led to believe otherwise. Instead of shooting episodes, Rin Tin Tin IV stayed at home in Riverside. The TV show Rin Tin Tin was nominated for a PATSY Award in 1958 and in 1959 but did not win.
SYNOPSIS:- Rin Tin TIn - The Lone Defender (1930)
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.
A prospector is murdered by The Cactus Kid and his gang, who hope to find the murdered man's goldmine. The miner's dog, Rin-Tin-Tin, recognizes the killers, who thereafter seek to use the dog to locate the lost mine. With the help of a government agent and a young girl, Rinty saves the mine and brings the bad guys to justice.
As they return from their secret mine in the desert, prospectors Juan Valdez and Burke are ambushed. Burke escapes but Valdez is shot and killed. A notorious bandit, The Cactus Kid, is suspected of the crime. Ramon, actually a Justice Department Agent named Marco Roberti, a mysterious figure, overhears a conversation between two townsmen, Halkey and Jenkins in which they discuss their failure to get the location map of the mine from Valdez. Rinty, Valdez's dog,recognizes Jenkins as his master's killer and attacks him. Halkey, actually "The Cactus Kid", decides to capture Rinty as he thinks the dog can lead him to the mine.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 4999 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1
Frames Per Second: 29.970
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages:English
RunTime 228 mins
Subtitles: None
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]
Duration: 228 mins
