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Lon Chaney, "Superhero"

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gene phillips	Lon Chaney, "Superhero"	Lead	[-]
Sep 12 07 4:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I just got hold of Roan's copy of THE LAST FRONTIER, starring Lon Chaney as some sort of masked fighter for justice. Anybody seen it already?
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Laughing Gravy	Re: Lon Chaney, "Superhero"	#1	[-]
Sep 12 07 5:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Not me, although I've owned it for a long time. It was the one and only serial released by Radio Pictures (RKO), nearly a decade before The Wolf Man made Chaney a commodity of some sort.
Count Gamula	Re: Lon Chaney, "Superhero"	#2	[-]
Sep 15 07 12:43 AM Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This was one of Chaney's first movies. I guess RKO took a chance on his name and starred him in this serial. It didn't do much for Chaney or RKO. As LG mentioned, RKO never made another serial and Chaney continued to struggle in small parts or obscure movies for years before finally getting Hollywood's attention in OF MICE AND MEN. As for the serial, it's a pretty tough one to get through. The inexperienced Chaney is not very good and not many western serials of this vintage were either.
BijouBob8mm	Re: Lon Chaney, "Superhero"	#3	[-]
Sep 15 07 8:14 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* not many western serials of this vintage were either. Boy, ain't that the truth. You would think that to be a genre readily lending itself to the cliffhanger format.
Tom Powers	Re: Lon Chaney, "Superhero"	#4	[-]
Sep 18 07 9:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It's fairly embarassing watching Lon try to do a Spanish accent. He's also saddled with playing a Zorro-type without a mask, only a thin fake mustache to change his looks. Though everyone IS mystified... :D
gene phillips		#5	[-]
Oct 8 07 1:01 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I rather enjoyed LAST FRONTIER. It's not overly imaginative with the cowboys-n'-injuns stuff, but it was livelier than some other western serials of my acquaintance. Lon does better with the brawling than with the romancing of the pretty young thing. In fact, I liked both of the lead female characters. Most serials don't do so well with the eye-candy thing. There is, I note, yet another of Hollywood's many "scared black guy" jokes in this serial. Lon's being guarded by a black cavalry soldier (apparently in the cavalry's first integrated unit), but Lon's buddy makes a "ghost voice" and scares him away. I'm surprised the filmmakers didn't just have the guy be a mule-skinner or something, rather than actually putting him in a cavalry uniform.

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