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Loner rider Singin' Sandy Saunders rides into town to discover local ranchers are being victimized by a land-grabbing villain who controls the water supply and wants their land.Loner rider Singin' Sandy Saunders rides into town to discover local ranchers are being victimized by a land-grabbing villain who controls the water supply and wants their land.Loner rider Singin' Sandy Saunders rides into town to discover local ranchers are being victimized by a land-grabbing villain who controls the water supply and wants their land.
George 'Gabby' Hayes
- Charlie Denton
- (as George Hayes)
Horace B. Carpenter
- Rancher
- (uncredited)
William Dyer
- Rancher
- (uncredited)
Anne Howard
- Bather's Wife
- (uncredited)
Wally Howe
- Rancher
- (uncredited)
Bert Lindley
- Rancher
- (uncredited)
Herman Nowlin
- Guard at Dam
- (uncredited)
Tex Palmer
- Henchman
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaJohn Wayne could not sing. The songs were dubbed by Bill Bradbury, a son of director Robert N. Bradbury.
- GoofsWhen Saunders first appears in the film, he is carrying a guitar and singing. The guitar is not with him when he gives his horse to Faye Denton to make her escape, but he has it back when he is at the Denton's house and sings to the family.
- Quotes
James Kincaid: I've made Denton an offer he can't refuse.
- Alternate versionsLater UK releases of this film were cut by 4 seconds to remove animal cruelty (a horse being ridden off a cliff into water) to comply with the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hooray for Hollywood (1982)
- SoundtracksA Cowboy's Song of Fate
(uncredited)
Composer unknown
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Introducing "Singin" Sandy Saunders
"Riders of Destiny" was the first of several westerns Wayne made for the Lone Star arm of Monogram Pictures between 1933 and 1935. In this entry, the producers try to make the Duke into a singing cowboy called "Singin' Sandy Saunders with hilarious results. Any Wayne fan knows that the Duke couldn't have carried a tune if his life had depended on it. His voice was apparently dubbed by Smith Ballew whose deep baritone sounds nothing like Wayne. Wayne looks awkward and uncomfortable in "performing" the musical numbers. Thank heavens the singing cowboy experiment soon ended.
As for the movie itself, it contains a standard "B" western plot of the fight over water rights between the villain (Forrest Taylor) and the local ranchers. Duke, of course plays the hero. He had not yet developed his on screen character and still looked like a poverty row cowboy.
Also cast in the film were George (pre-Gabby) Hayes as the heroine's father, Cecilia Parker as the heroine and Yakima Canutt as "one of the boys" who performs his "falling from the racing horses under the wagon" stunt while doubling Wayne. Both Canutt and Hayes would go on to appear with Wayne in most of the other entries in the series. Canutt, in particular would have a profound effect on Wayne's future development teaching him, among other things, how to move, fight and look comfortable on a horse.
As "B" westerns go this one isn't too bad, however, I have to give it a failing grade because of the "singing".
As for the movie itself, it contains a standard "B" western plot of the fight over water rights between the villain (Forrest Taylor) and the local ranchers. Duke, of course plays the hero. He had not yet developed his on screen character and still looked like a poverty row cowboy.
Also cast in the film were George (pre-Gabby) Hayes as the heroine's father, Cecilia Parker as the heroine and Yakima Canutt as "one of the boys" who performs his "falling from the racing horses under the wagon" stunt while doubling Wayne. Both Canutt and Hayes would go on to appear with Wayne in most of the other entries in the series. Canutt, in particular would have a profound effect on Wayne's future development teaching him, among other things, how to move, fight and look comfortable on a horse.
As "B" westerns go this one isn't too bad, however, I have to give it a failing grade because of the "singing".
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- Western von gestern: Die Wasserrechte von Lost Creek
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- $15,000 (estimated)
- Runtime53 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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