The Lone Star Ranger (1930 film)

{{Short description|1930 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Lone Star Ranger

| image = The Lone Star Ranger ad in The Film Daily, Jan-Jun 1929 (page 1485 crop).jpg

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| director = A.F. Erickson

| producer = A.F. Erickson

| screenplay = Seton I. Miller
John Hunter Booth

| based_on = The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey

| starring = George O'Brien
Sue Carol
Walter McGrail
Warren Hymer
Russell Simpson
Roy Stewart

| music =

| cinematography = Daniel B. Clark

| editing = Jack Murray

| studio = Fox Film Corporation

| distributor = Fox Film Corporation

| released = {{Film date|1930|1|5}}

| runtime = 64 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

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The Lone Star Ranger is a 1930 American pre-Code Western film directed by A.F. Erickson and written by Seton I. Miller and John Hunter Booth. The film stars George O'Brien, Sue Carol, Walter McGrail, Warren Hymer, Russell Simpson and Roy Stewart. It is based on the 1915 novel The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey. The film was released on January 5, 1930, by Fox Film Corporation.{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/81702/the-lone-star-ranger |title=The Lone Star Ranger (1930) - Overview |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |date= |access-date=October 10, 2015}}{{cite web|author=Synopsis by Hal Erickson |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-lone-star-ranger-v100029 |title=The Lone Star Ranger (1930) - A.F. Erickson | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related |publisher=AllMovie |date= |access-date=October 10, 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/10348-THE-LONESTARRANGER?sid=90cbc4ee-ecae-4e4d-8817-a3ee6505cd1a&sr=12.1268&cp=1&pos=0|title=The Lone Star Ranger |publisher=Afi.com |date= |access-date=September 3, 2022}}

Originally released as an All-Talking picture, the film seems to have survived only in an International Sound Version, which replaced the dialogue portions of the film with music and intertitles. Parts of the film were shot in Monument Valley and Rainbow Bridge in Utah.{{cite book|last1=D'Arc|first1=James V.|title=When Hollywood came to town: a history of moviemaking in Utah|date=2010|publisher=Gibbs Smith|location=Layton, Utah|isbn=9781423605874|edition=1st}}{{rp|286}}