Riders of Destiny is a 1933 pre-Code Western musical film starring 26-year-old John Wayne as Singin’ Sandy Saunders, the screen’s second singing cowboy (the first being Ken Maynard in the 1929 film The Wagon Master). It was the first of a series of sixteen Lone Star Westerns made for Monogram Pictures between 1933-1935, by Wayne and director Robert N. Bradbury, and the first pairing of Wayne with George “Gabby” Hayes.

Plot
Bad guy Kincaid controls the local water supply and plans to do in the other ranchers. Government agent Saunders shows up undercover to do in Kincaid and win the heart of one of his victims Fay Denton.

Cast
John Wayne as Singin’ Sandy Saunders
Cecilia Parker as Fay Denton
Forrest Taylor as James Kincaid
George “Gabby” Hayes as Charlie Denton (billed as George Hayes)
Al St. John as henchman Bert
Heinie Conklin as henchman Elmer
Yakima Canutt as henchman
Earl Dwire as Slip Morgan
Lafe McKee as Sheriff Bill Baxter
Addie Foster as Mrs. Mason
Silver Tip Baker as townsman (uncredited)
Horace B. Carpenter as rancher (uncredited)
William Dyer as rancher (uncredited)