The Painted Stallion (1937)

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Zamorro: Get your men under cover and don't fire until I give you the signal.

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Lt. Gov. Alfredo Dupray: A whistling arrow...
Zamorro: A whistling arrow warned the fur traders before they got into range. After that we could do nothing.
Lt. Gov. Alfredo Dupray: Bah! It's time we put a stop to these-these interuptions.
Zamorro: All the peons and the Indians think for sure that the stallion is a ghost horse and the rider an Indian spirit.
Lt. Gov. Alfredo Dupray: No spirit ever shot an arrow like this.

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Clark Stuart: What's your name, son?
Christopher 'Kit' Carson: Christopher, sir.
Clark Stuart: Christopher, eh? That's too long a name. We'll change that to... Kit. Why did you run away?
Christopher 'Kit' Carson: I just had to come West to be a scout, sir. I just hadda!
Clark Stuart: I see. What's your last name, Kit?
Christopher 'Kit' Carson: Carson, sir.
Clark Stuart: Kit Carson, eh?

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Chapter Titles: 1. Trail to Empire; 2. The Rider of the Stallion' 3. The Death Leap; 4. Avalanche; 5. Volley of Death; 6. Thundering Wheels; 7. Trail Treachery; 8. The Whistling Arrow; 9. The Fatal Message; 10. Ambush; 11. Tunnel of Terror; 12. Human Targets.
The rights to Hal G. Evarts' story were sold to Republic Pictures by his widow. Ironically, the serial isn't faithful whatsoever to Evarts' original story: the writers substituted an entirely different story.
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