The Lightning Warrior

12 chapters (250 min)CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

The Lightning Warrior is a 1931 American Pre-Code Mascot movie serial starring Rin Tin Tin in his last role. It is regarded as one of the better Mascot serials. A number of the production's outdoor action sequences were filmed on the rocky Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California, known for its huge sandstone boulders and widely recognized as the most heavily filmed outdoor shooting location in the history of the movies. This was the original Rin Tin Tin's last movie, as he died in 1932, being replaced that same year by Rin Tin Tin Jr.^[1]

Plot

The Wolfman, a mysterious masked figure, is leading an Indian uprising to drive local settlers off their land.^[2] 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.

Cast

• Rin Tin Tin as "Rinty", a dog known as The Lightning Warrior to the local Indians
• Frankie Darro as Jimmy Carter
• George Brent as Alan Scott, government agent
• Patrick H. O'Malley, Jr. as Sheriff 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, henchman
• Dick Dickinson as Adams, henchman
• Yakima Canutt as Ken Davis and Deputy
• Frank Lanning as Indian George/ Jim

Chapter titles

1. Drums of Doom
2. The Wolf Man
3. Empty Saddles
4. Flaming Arrows
5. The Invisible Enemy
6. The Fatal Name
7. The Ordeal of Fire
8. The Man Who Knew
9. Traitor's Hour
10. Secret of the Cave
11. Red Shadows
12. Painted Faces

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References

External links

• The Lightning Warrior at IMDb
• The Lightning Warrior at AllMovie
• Filming of "The Lightning Warrrior" in the Iverson Gorge on the Iverson Movie Ranch
• Iverson Movie Ranch: History, vintage photos.

Preceded by The Galloping Ghost (1931)

Mascot Serial The Lightning Warrior(1931)

Succeeded by The Shadow of the Eagle (1931)