Riders of Destiny (1933)
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Government agent Sandy Saunders poses as a hired gun to infiltrate the operation of a water baron squeezing every rancher in a drought-stricken valley, turning the villain's own contract against him before a flood of his own making finishes the job.
Riders of Destiny opened the run of sixteen Lone Star Westerns Monogram cranked out with John Wayne between 1933 and 1935, saddling him with the “Singin’ Sandy” gimmick meant to cash in on the singing-cowboy craze — his vocals dubbed, since Wayne famously couldn’t carry a tune, and the gimmick dropped almost as fast as it arrived.
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