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“I thought that was really kind of nasty and unnecessary,” says Christopher Lloyd, who grew up listening to and loving the radio serial. When the film crew got to Sante Fe to begin shooting, they quickly found leaflets tucked under their cars’ windshield wipers that read, “Clayton Moore is the REAL Lone Ranger.” Even the cast felt Wrather had gone too far. But the legal victory backfired, since millions of fans still idolized Moore and couldn’t bear to see the old man bullied by a Hollywood millionaire. Wrather, who’d owned the Lone Ranger character since the early 1950s, sued Moore and won a court order that prevented Moore from wearing the mask in public. Moore was even dropping hints that he should play the Lone Ranger in the new movie. Clayton Moore, who was in his mid-60s, was still appearing at supermarket openings and signing autographs as the Lone Ranger.
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Meanwhile, Jack Wrather was waging a losing battle on another front. Who was their masked man? His name was Klinton Spilsbury. After witnessing how a little-known actor named Christopher Reeve made Superman fly at the box-office, the producers copied that blue-print and tapped a 30-year-old no-name actor to save the president, kiss the girl (the late Juanin Clay), and ride off on a white horse before the townspeople could thank him. All that was left was the selection of their leading man. John Barry ( Born Free) composed the rambling score, and a posse of great horsemen provided the old-school Western stunts. Jason Robards signed up to play President Ulysses Grant, and Christopher Lloyd was the dastardly Butch Cavendish, the disgraced Civil War officer who kidnaps Grant. Producers Jack Wrather, Walter Coblenz, and Martin Starger recruited an all-star unit to bring the Lone Ranger back to life more than 30 years ago, including their director, Oscar-nominated cinematographer William Fraker ( Rosemary’s Baby), who told his crew he wanted his epic to evoke the look of Lawrence of Arabia.