Riders of Destiny

1933

Music / Romance / Western

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 31% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 31% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 1316 1.3K

romance b movie singing cowboy

Director

Robert N. Bradbury Photo
Robert N. Bradbury

Top cast

George 'Gabby' Hayes Photo
George 'Gabby' Hayes as Charlie Denton
John Wayne Photo
John Wayne as Singin' Sandy Saunders
Cecilia Parker Photo
Cecilia Parker as Fay Denton
William Dyer Photo
William Dyer as Rancher
720p.WEB
483.02 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
30 fps
12 hr 52 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by classicsoncall 6 / 10

"You suppose you could, eh, go in and tell her you like her biscuits or somethin'..."

Reviewed by weezeralfalfa 6 / 10

No lip-syncing gunslingers, please!

Please don't judge this film by the first 10 min.. John Wayne, alias Singin' Sandy Saunders, gets out his guitar in two spots, including the opening scene, and lip syncs to two very different sounding singing voices. Please spare us any more of this!It's pretty bad when you have to hold up the stage in order to beat the bandits you know, from experience, are going to hold it up a little later and take the money being sent to you. But, that's the predicament striking blond Cecilia Parker found herself in when Wayne saw her horse shot out from under her by the stage driver. Seems the expected bandits were part of the same criminal outfit, headed by a Mr. Kincaid, as the stage drivers. Actually, their main racket was hoarding nearly all the regional water and selling it dear to the ranchers. The ranch owned by Gabby Hayes and daughter Cecelia has a well, the only other water source in this region. Thus, Kincaid especially wants to acquire this property for a full water monopoly, while threatening to cut off his water to the other ranchers unless they sell their land to him for next to nothing. Nice guy, Eh? Well, ole John has a plan how to get the ranchers out of this impossible situation. Kincaid falls for it like Cecilia falls for Wayne and vice versa. During the follow up horse chase of Kincaid by Wayne, poetic justice is served, and the valley ranchers presumably live happily ever after. See the movie to learn the rather unexpected details. Clever man, that Singin' Sandy Saunders. Clever, but sneaky.
Reviewed by bkoganbing 6 / 10

Singing Sandy Saunders Sends 'Em to Jail

Had the good folks at Lone Star Productions only decided not to dub John Wayne's voice with some forgettable cowboy ballads this would have been a far better western than it turned out to be.Of course Wayne in later years would cringe at the mention of these films. If you want a good idea of how he really sounded listen to him in McLintock singing a favorite ballad of his, The Moon Shines Tonight on Pretty Redwing. The Lone Star people might have even looked for a young band singer working day to day in clubs in New Jersey around this time named Frank Sinatra who over 30 years later actually had his voice come out of Wayne's mouth during a Dean Martin show.If they could have cut out the singing gimmick, Riders of Destiny is not a bad film, in fact a cut above some of the westerns the Duke was doing at the time. Ranchers in the valley are being squeezed out by a greedy villain played by Forrest Taylor. He's built a dam and controls all the water and it's either sell to him outright or pay his exorbitant prices for water. Gabby Hayes and his daughter Cecelia Parker happen to have the only other water around because they dug a well. Taylor especially wants their land.The citizens have written to the federal government in Washington for intervention and they get it in the form of John Wayne. I don't think I have to go any farther. The Duke finds a very clever solution for the water problem which you should see the film to find out.But don't lose your lunch hearing that Nelson Eddy wannabe voice coming out of Mr. Wayne's mouth.
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