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Rin Tin Tin - The Lightening Warrior (1931) DVD9 - Disk 2- Western Serial in 12 Chapters [DDR]
The Lightning Warrior is a 1931 American Mascot movie serial starring Rin Tin Tin in his last role. It is regarded as one of the better Mascot serials.
CAST:-
Rin Tin Tin as "Rinty", known as The Lightning Warrior to the local Indians.
Frankie Darro as Jimmy Carter, set to defeat The Wolfman after the villain kills
Jimmy's father Hayden Stevenson as Carter
George Brent as Alan Scott, government agent investigating The Wolfman and his
brother's death
Pat O'Malley as Sheriff A. W. Brown
Georgia Hale as Dianne
Theodore Lorch as Pierre La Farge
Lafe McKee as John Hayden
Frank Brownlee as Angus McDonald
Bob Kortman as Wells, one of the Wolfman's henchmen
Dick Dickinson as Adams, one of the Wolfman's henchmen
Yakima Canutt as Ken Davis and Deputy
Frank Lanning as Indian George/Jim
Bertee Beaumont as Pioneer Woman
Helen Gibson as Pioneer Woman
Directed by Benjamin H. Kline, Armand Schaefer
Produced by Nat Levine
Written by Ford Beebe, Wyndham Gittens, Colbert Clark
CHAPTERS:-
01. Drums of Doom
02. The Wolf Man
03. Empty Saddles
04. Flaming Arrows
05. The Invisible Enemy
06. The Fatal Name
07. The Ordeal of Fire
08. The Man Who Knew
09. Traitor's Hour
10. Secret of the Cave
11. Red Shadows
12. Painted Faces
RIN TIN TIN:- Origins
As part of the advances made by the French and American forces during the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, U.S. Army corporal Lee Duncan was sent forward on September 15, 1918, to the small French village of Flirey to find a suitable landing ground for military aircraft. The area had been subject to bombs and artillery, and Duncan found a severely damaged kennel which had once supplied the German Army with German Shepherd dogs. The only dogs left alive in the kennel were a starving mother with a litter of five nursing puppies, their eyes still shut because they were less than a week old. Duncan rescued the dogs and brought them back to his unit. When the puppies were weaned he gave the mother to an officer and three of the litter to other soldiers, but he kept a male and a female. He felt that these two dogs were symbols of his good luck. He called them Rin Tin Tin and Nanette after a pair of good luck charms called Rintintin and Nénette that French children often gave to the American soldiers. Duncan sensed that Nanette was the smarter of the two puppies.(The soldiers were usually told that Rintintin and Nénette were lucky lovers who had survived a bombing attack, but the original dolls had been designed by Francisque Poulbot before the war in late 1913 to look like Paris street urchins. Contrary to popular usage, Poulbot said that Rintintin was the girl doll.
In July 1919, Duncan managed to bundle the dogs aboard a ship taking him back to the US at the end of the war. When he got to Long Island, New York, for re-entry processing, he put his dogs in the care of a Hempstead breeder named Mrs. Leo Wanner who raised police dogs. Nanette was diagnosed with pneumonia; as a replacement the breeder gave Duncan
another female German Shepherd puppy. Duncan headed to California by rail with his dogs. While Duncan was traveling by train, Nanette died in Hempstead. As a memorial, Duncan named his new puppy Nanette II, but he called her Nanette. Duncan, Rin Tin Tin and Nanette II settled at his home in Los Angeles. Rin Tin Tin was a dark sable color and had very dark eyes. Nanette II was much lighter in color.
An athletic silent film actor named Eugene Pallette was one of Duncan's friends. The two men enjoyed the outdoors; they took the dogs to the Sierras where Pallette liked to hunt while Duncan taught Rin Tin Tin various tricks. Duncan thought that his dog might win a few awards at dog shows and thus be a valuable source of puppy sales, bred with Nanette. In 1922 Duncan was a founding member of the Shepherd Dog Club of California, based in Los Angeles. At the club's first show Rin Tin Tin showed his agility but also demonstrated an aggressive temper, growling, barking and snapping. It was a very poor performance, but the worst moment came afterward when Duncan was walking home. A heavy bundle of newspapers was thrown off of a delivery truck and it landed on the dog, breaking his left front leg. Duncan had the injured limb set in plaster and he nursed the dog back to health for nine months.
Ten months after the break, the leg was healed and Rin Tin Tin was entered in a show for German Shepherds in Los Angeles. Rin Tin Tin had learned to leap great heights. At the dog show while making a winning leap of 11 feet 9 inches (3.58 m) he was filmed by Duncan's acquaintance Charley Jones, who had just developed a slow-motion camera. Seeing his dog being filmed, Duncan became convinced Rin Tin Tin could become the next Strongheart, a successful film dog that lived in his own full-sized stucco bungalow with its own street address in the Hollywood Hills, separate from the mansion of his owners who lived a block away next to Roy Rogers. Duncan later wrote, "I was so excited over the motion-picture idea that I found myself thinking of it night and day."
        
SYNOPSIS:- Rin Tin Tin - THe Lightning Warrior (1931)
The Wolfman, a mysterious masked figure, is leading an Indian uprising to drive local settlers off their land.
The Wolfman kills Jimmy Carter's father and Alan Scott's brother, which leads the two heroes and Alan's dog Rinty, to hunt down and defeat the villain.
A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, young Jimmy Carter unmasks the Wolf Man and foils his evil plot.
The settlers of the Kern River valley live in terror as they are menaced by the Indians and also by a mysterious creature known as the Wolf Man. Jimmy Carter and his father are paddling downstream toward the safety of the settlement but an arrow shot from the riverbank strikes Mr. Carter and the canoe overturns. Jimmy reaches the cabin of his father's friend, Allan Scott, who aided by his dog Rinty, unravels a plot to stir up the Indians against the white settlers.
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 250 mins
Subtitles: None
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]
Duration: 250 mins |
