In the first episode, "Enter the Lone Ranger", before the Rangers get ambushed, does anyone know for sure if Clayton Moore was actually one of the Rangers riding along with the others? He was obviously being kept in the background so it's hard to pick him out. Maybe Moore wasn't even there until we see him crawling across the dirt after the ambush??
shareI've watched this several times and I can't pick him out. I think you're right, he appears after the ambush crawling along the ground.
shareI'm pretty sure he is there in the ambush, but is well hidden. He is one of the last ones to get shot and he grabs his wound and falls over on someone else. I will double-check this though. Stay tuned (no pun intended, well maybe a little)!
shareI know the scene you mention. I think that was supposed to be him, but was actually a stunt man. The clothes seemed looser on him than on Moore.
"We have a powerful enemy somewhere within our planetary system." -Commando Cody
He IS there. At the very beginning,when you see the close up of Collins' face he is right behind him quickly turning his face as though he is looking around. Later when Collins is in a room with 4 or 5 Rangers, Clayton is sitting almost in front of Collins with his back to the camera. He is wearing a dark hat and vest.
Later before and during the ambush you can see him in the background. His face is either turned away or blocked by another Ranger.
Great detective work, you guys. I LOVE attention to detail regarding stuff like this. Thanks!
shareIn the ambush, Dan Reid is shot by Cavendish. Afterward, the Lone Ranger comes to check on him, fires a shot at one of Cavendish's henchmen, and then receives a shot in the shoulder from another one of the henchmen - a somewhat older individual with pointed features. I think he may have been the one called "Whitey." In any event, he was there prior to his regaining consciousness.
It's just that they expertly handled it so that you didn't take attention to him until they were ready for you to do so. He was one of the background characters, fodder for Cavendish bullets like the other five individuals, until his crawling away from the tragedy informed us that he was to become the Lone Ranger.
Cavendish later gets a job as Kitty's bartender on Gunsmoke. Before he turned to a life of crime he had been the Frankenstein monster in House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula a couple of years prior.
Being the Frankenstein monster would probably have made me take up a life of crime, also.
Yes I know he was the actor Glenn Strange.