Hardrock Jones and Rusty Bates have been prospectors and partners for thirty years. Hardrock has silver fever real bad. He wants to make a silver strike so bad that he can taste it. When eastern tenderfeet newcomers Dick and Bob Larrabee strike it rich, Hardrock can't stand it. He murders Rusty and puts the blame on the Larrabee brothers, hoping to take over their claim. The local sheriff seems honest but not too bright. Tonto will have to stay in town to make sure the brothers aren't lynched. Meanwhile, The Ranger will have to take a desperate chance to expose the truth.
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The Tale Of Two Tenderfeet
StrictlyConfidential7 July 2021
Warning: Spoilers
"The Tenderfeet" (episode 9) was first aired on television November 10, 1949.
Anyway - As the story goes - Claim jumping and murder are pinned on two greenhorns who strike it rich, until the Lone Ranger traps the real killer.
Anyway - As the story goes - Claim jumping and murder are pinned on two greenhorns who strike it rich, until the Lone Ranger traps the real killer.
This episode could have had a much better ending.
paladin45026 December 2008
Warning: Spoilers
This comment contains a spoiler so reader be warned. In this episode the "bad-guy," Hardrock, was very aggressive,for example,shooting and killing his mining partner and later gun-butting and knocking the sheriff out, played by Monte Blue. Monte, who was bleeding from the his head wound,later crawled toward Hardrock's cabin where Hardrock was trying to make the Lone Ranger jump into a 300 foot mining shaft.
Despite all this, Hardrock gives up with almost a whimper when he was barely punched by the Ranger at the end of the show. Maybe the actor who played Hardrock was afraid of any physical contact with Clayton Moore because of his advancing years. In short, this episode could have been of the best but was so anti-climatic it really let me down. I've seen many Lone Ranger episodes and some are better than others which is natural with a long television series. Sometimes this can't be helped if a script is too thin. But this episode was full of action and detail until the disappointing end.
Despite all this, Hardrock gives up with almost a whimper when he was barely punched by the Ranger at the end of the show. Maybe the actor who played Hardrock was afraid of any physical contact with Clayton Moore because of his advancing years. In short, this episode could have been of the best but was so anti-climatic it really let me down. I've seen many Lone Ranger episodes and some are better than others which is natural with a long television series. Sometimes this can't be helped if a script is too thin. But this episode was full of action and detail until the disappointing end.
The Tenderfeet
Prismark1030 November 2023
Although the silver rush has long gone. Dick Larrabee and Bob Larrabee are two brothers who think there might still be silver somewhere among the abandoned mines.
In fact The Lone Ranger and Tonto who come to return their errant donkey. Helpfully points out where there might be silver up high in the mountain.
Watching events unfold are Hardrock Jones and Rusty Bates. For thirty years there have been mining for silver without success.
These newbies take the Lone Ranger's advice and find silver. Much to the disgust of the two old timers.
Jones has a plan. File a claim for silver first and then frame the Larabee's for Rusty's mother. He then shoots Rusty dead.
Now the Lone Ranger needs to come to the rescue of the brothers from a charge of mother.
I liked how Jones and Bates just watched the two brothers for days on end looking for silver. They had nothing better to do.
I did not think much of the Sheriff who could not sniff out a rascal like Jones without the Lone Ranger's help.
In fact The Lone Ranger and Tonto who come to return their errant donkey. Helpfully points out where there might be silver up high in the mountain.
Watching events unfold are Hardrock Jones and Rusty Bates. For thirty years there have been mining for silver without success.
These newbies take the Lone Ranger's advice and find silver. Much to the disgust of the two old timers.
Jones has a plan. File a claim for silver first and then frame the Larabee's for Rusty's mother. He then shoots Rusty dead.
Now the Lone Ranger needs to come to the rescue of the brothers from a charge of mother.
I liked how Jones and Bates just watched the two brothers for days on end looking for silver. They had nothing better to do.
I did not think much of the Sheriff who could not sniff out a rascal like Jones without the Lone Ranger's help.
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