The Lone Ranger is a 1938 American Republic Pictures movie serial based on The Lone Ranger radio program.
It was the ninth of the sixty-six serials produced by Republic, the fourth Western (a third of Republic's serials were Westerns) and the first Republic serial release of 1938.
The following year a sequel serial The Lone Ranger Rides Again was released.
The fifteen chapters of the serial were condensed into the film Hi-Yo Silver, which was released in 1940.