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Release Date: 1933

Cast: Forrest Taylor, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Yakima Canutt, Cecilia Parker, Alfred St. John, John Wayne

Categories: Movies, Western, Singing cowboy, Action, Musical, Black-and-white, Action/Adventure

Riders of Destiny is a 1933 Western musical film starring 26-year-old John Wayne as Singin' Sandy Saunders, the screen's first singing cowboy. Wayne's singing voice was dubbed and the film is considerably darker than the Gene Autry singing cowboy movies that followed it; Singin' Sandy's ten-gallon hat was black instead of white and he would grimly chant about "streets soon running with blood" and "you'll be drinking your drinks with the dead" as he strode purposefully down the street toward a showdown. The supporting cast includes George "Gabby" Hayes, acrobatic comedian Al St. John, and... MORE

Riders of Destiny is a 1933 Western musical film starring 26-year-old John Wayne as Singin' Sandy Saunders, the screen's first singing cowboy. Wayne's singing voice was dubbed and the film is considerably darker than the Gene Autry singing cowboy movies that followed it; Singin' Sandy's ten-gallon hat was black instead of white and he would grimly chant about "streets soon running with blood" and "you'll be drinking your drinks with the dead" as he strode purposefully down the street toward a showdown. The supporting cast includes George "Gabby" Hayes, acrobatic comedian Al St. John, and stuntman Yakima Canutt, and the movie was written and directed by Robert N. Bradbury. John Wayne's dubbed singing, which bore no resemblance to his unique speaking voice, was the reason he abandoned the singing cowboy format after only one film: he was chronically embarrassed during personal appearances when he couldn't accommodate children who clamored for a Singin' Sandy song. Gene Autry was chosen by the studio as Wayne's replacement in the new genre, immediately solving the live singing problem while ushering in a much lighter take on the format than Wayne's grimly intense rendition. LESS