The Fighting Ranger (serial)

{{short description|1925 film}} {{for|the 1934 Columbia Pictures film|The Fighting Ranger (1934 film)}} {{Use American English|date=September 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Fighting Ranger | image = The Fighting Ranger (1925) - 1.jpg | caption = Advertisement | director = Jay Marchant | producer = | writer = Fred McConnell<br />George W. Pyper | starring = Jack Dougherty<br />Eileen Sedgwick | cinematography = | distributor = Universal Pictures | released = {{film date|1925|5|11}} | runtime = 18 episodes | country = United States | language = Silent<br />English intertitles }} '''''The Fighting Ranger''''' is a 1925 American silent Western film serial directed by Jay Marchant and starring Jack Dougherty. The film is now considered to be lost.<ref name="silentera">{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/FightingRanger1925.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Fighting Ranger'' |access-date=August 22, 2008|work=silentera.com}}</ref>

==Plot== As described in a review in a film magazine,<ref name="MPW">{{cite journal |title=''The Fighting Ranger''; Thumb Nail Theme |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=72 |issue=5 |pages=454 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co. |location=New York City |date=31 January 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor72janf/page/454/mode/1up |access-date=8 August 2021}}</ref> fifteen years earlier, John Marshall, a prosperous cattle raiser, shot a man. He knew the act was justifiable, but because of the political influence of his victim he felt his only recourse was to flee. Taking his little daughter, he hid himself in a fastness of the mountains that constitute a part of his vast ranch. The only man he trusts in the outside world is Topaz Taggart, a political boss and all-round tricky citizen, who is really trying to get Marshall's ranch as he knows that buried on it is a fabulous treasure that is guarded by an aged Yaqui, the last of his tribe. Bud Hughes, one time an aviator but now a tramp, has attached himself to Marshall's hiding place which also includes Miguel Cordero, a faithful Mexican workman. One day Terrence O'Rourke, a forest ranger with a double mission, drops into the hiding place because, due to a wound, he lost control of his airplane. Marshall's daughter Mary, now grown into womanhood, nurses the young man back to health. From here, in later chapters Terrence becomes her and her father's protector in a series of disheartening experiences at the hands of Taggart and his tools.

==Cast== {{Cast listing| * Jack Dougherty as Terrence O'Rourke (credited as Jack Daugherty) * Eileen Sedgwick as Mary Marshall * Al Wilson as Bud Hughes * Bud Osborne as Topaz Taggart * William Welsh as John Marshall * Charles Avery as Miguel Cordero * Frank Lanning as Komi * Sam Polo as Ramon * Slim Cole as Buck * Gladys Roy as Stella Montrose }}

==Chapter titles== {{div col}} # The Intruder # The Frame-Up # The Secret Trail # Falsely Accused # The Betrayal # The Lost Fortune # Cattle Wolves # Under Fire # Man to Man # The Fatal Message # Hidden Fangs # False Friends # Stolen Secrets # Steeds of the Sky # Yaqui Gold # Left for Dead # Yaqui Gold # [Unknown title] {{div col end}}

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==External links== {{commons category|The Fighting Ranger (serial)}} *{{IMDb title|id=0015812|title=The Fighting Ranger}}

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