Riders of Destiny
About Riders of Destiny
James Kincaid holds the local water and means to push the other ranchers out. Government agent Sandy Saunders arrives as a traveling singer, looks into the land scheme, and falls for Fay Denton, one of the people Kincaid is squeezing. John Wayne plays Sandy. Cecilia Parker plays Fay. George Hayes and Forrest Taylor are billed.
Cast & crew
More about Riders of Destiny
Robert N. Bradbury wrote and directed it. Paul Malvern produced it. Archie Stout photographed it. Carl Pierson edited it. Monogram released it on 10 October 1933. It runs 53 minutes. It is the first of sixteen Lone Star Westerns Bradbury made for Monogram between 1933 and 1935, the first time Wayne was paired with Hayes, and one of the early singing-cowboy pictures. Wayne was 26. Al St. John, Yakima Canutt, and Heinie Conklin are billed. Copies are on the Internet Archive and on Wikimedia Commons.
Themes
Look
Archie Stout photographed the ranch country at Kernville, Lancaster, and Palmdale.
Preservation
Copies are on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Sandy's cover is a singer, which is why the part is billed Singin' Sandy Saunders.
- The locations named are Kernville, Lancaster, and Palmdale.
- The Internet Archive identifier is RidersofDestiny_.
Scenes
- Saunders rides into the dry town as a singer and starts asking who controls the water.
Also available
- Internet Archive (RidersofDestiny_)
