The Lone Defender (1930)
3h 37m
Running Time
March 4, 1930Release Date
Plot.
A prospector is murdered by The Cactus Kid and his gang, who hope to find the murdered man's goldmine. The miner's dog, Rin-Tin-Tin, recognizes the killers, who thereafter seek to use the dog to locate the lost mine. With the help of a government agent and a young girl, Rinty saves the mine and brings the bad guys to justice.
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Cast & Crew.
Rin-Tin-Tin
Rinty
Walter Miller
Ramon
June Marlowe
Dolores Valdez
Josef Swickard
Juan Valdez
Buzz Barton
Buzz
Lee Shumway
Amos Harkey
Julia Bejarano
Maria, the Dueña
Lafe McKee
Sheriff Billings
Arthur Morrison
Limpy
Frank Lanning
Burke
Bob Kortman
Jenkins
Victor Metzetti
Red / Stunts
Otto Metzetti
Red's Partner
Richard Thorpe
Director
William P. Burt
Screenplay
Ernest Miller
Cinematographer
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
movie serial
dog hero
german shepherd
Wiki.
The Lone Defender is a 1930 American Pre-Code Mascot serial film starring Rin Tin Tin. It was Mascot's first all-sound serial (the second to have any sound at all, after the partial sound in The King of the Kongo). It was Rin Tin Tin's first serial at Mascot, after being dropped by Warner Bros. when they decided animal pictures would not work with "Talkies". He also starred in the later serial The Lightning Warrior, which was his last appearance (he died in 1932).
The plot revolves around Rin Tin Tin as "Rinty" and a secret gold mine fought over by the criminal "The Cactus Kid" and the legitimate owners. Material from this serial was edited into a feature film version and released under the same name in 1934.