The Last Ranger was a western film developed by Hill Century Studios prior to the events of Alone in the Dark 3.
The film was in development in Slaughter Gulch for exterior shots when the production crew and Billy Silver, the main actor, were killed by the local ghosts roaming the town. The only remnants of the movie consist of a small scene that can be seen in a projector inside the Saloon, featuring Billy's unnatural death, and a story-board for a scene involving a train station.
Production[]
The movie went through what seemed to be a curse during production, with the writers ending up in a brawl in the Copacobana School of Fine Arts and accidentally setting the place on fire, and the first director of the movie arrested in his house in Los Angeles.
And Greg Saunders, the boss of Hill Century, was determined to go through with production despite the incidents. The actor scheduled for the leading role, Ambrosanus C. Barthelby, had no notion of how to ride a horse, and was replaced by Hill Century's rising male star Billy Silver, who demanded the studio to pay him in gold ingots.
The studios was about to go bankrupt, when the Barthelby Bank opened a line of credit. Soon after, on June 24th 1925, the film crew from the studio secretly moved to Slaughter Gulch. John Pierpoint Stacks, the new director, began filming the exteriors for The Last Ranger, and Greg Saunders' publicity department had already come up with a novel idea, having Jeffrey Davis galloping on his appaloosa into Hollywood to deliver the news on the shoot to gathered hacks, until the third week, when his horse collapsed in the middle of Hollywood Boulevard, which sparked attacks on the newspaper by a group of animal lovers and a protest in front of the Chinese Theater, which led to a few arrests, including of the city mayor.
Everything went steady for two weeks, until Jeffrey Davis failed to appear at Hill Century's offices. Rumors spread that the crew could have gotten hurt or lost, until one of the horses rented by Hill Century was found in a state of terror and exhaustion in Johannesburg, with a message written by a lipstick in its saddle: "Call Carnby." The news soon came to Greg Saunders, who called to Edward Carnby's office in San Francisco, asking him to investigate and find out what happened to the crew and find Emily Hartwood.
The status of the film from then on is unknown.
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