The Lone Rider Ambushed is a 1941 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Oliver Drake. The film stars George Houston as the Lone Rider and Al St. John as his sidekick "Fuzzy" Jones, with Maxine Leslie, Frank Hagney, Jack Ingram and Hal Price. The film was released on August 29, 1941, by Producers Releasing Corporation.[1][2][3]
| The Lone Rider Ambushed | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Sam Newfield |
| Screenplay by | Oliver Drake |
| Produced by | Sigmund Neufeld |
| Starring | George Houston Al St. John Maxine Leslie Frank Hagney Jack Ingram Hal Price |
| Cinematography | Jack Greenhalgh |
| Edited by | Holbrook N. Todd |
Production company | Sigmund Neufeld Productions |
| Distributed by | Producers Releasing Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 63 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
This is the fifth movie in the "Lone Rider" series, which spans seventeen films—eleven starring George Houston, and a further six starring Robert Livingston.[3] In this film, Houston plays a dual role as both the Lone Rider and the villain, Keno Harris.
Houston, once an opera singer, sang three songs in this film: "Without You Darling, Life Wouldn't Be the Same", "Ridin' Roamin' on the Prairie" and "If It Hadn't Been for You". The songs were written by Johnny Lange and Lew Porter.
This film was later released on DVD as Trapped in the Badlands.
Tom Cameron, the Lone Rider, pretends to be an outlaw named Keno—a task made easier due to the fact that Tom looks exactly like the outlaw. He pretends to be the outlaw in order to find Keno's accomplices, and recover a large sum of stolen money from Keno's last heist. Unfortunately for the Lone Rider, one of the outlaw's buddies, Blackie Dawson, begins to suspect Tom is not who he claims to be.[4][5]
The "Lone Rider" films starring George Houston:
starring Robert Livingston: