Randy Rides Alone

Randy Rides Alone (1934)

Fearless--- He Rode the Danger Trail!

Bandits lead by Matt the Mute enter a bar and kill multiple people. Randy Bowers comes to town and is framed by Matt the Mute, who is working with the sheriff (who doesn't know Matt is really a criminal). Randy escapes with the help of the niece of the dead owner of the bar. Bowers ends up running from the sheriff, and ends up in the cave in which the bandits have their hide-out…

Date of release
1934-06-05
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (35)
Runtime
53m
Genres
Action, Western
Director
Harry L. Fraser

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Santa Clarita

Randy Rides Alone is a 1934 American Pre-Code Western film starring John Wayne, Yakima Canutt, and George Hayes. The 53-minute black-and-white film was directed by Harry L. Fraser, produced by Paul Malvern for Lone Star Productions, and released by Monogram Pictures. Wayne plays a cowboy falsely accused of massacring all the occupants of a saloon, except for a beautiful young woman who hid out of sight.

Production

The Lone Star pictures began at Warner Bros. as a way of repurposing stock footage from Ken Maynard's films with Wayne acting in the closeups. Trem Carr suggested continuing the brand with original films. Wayne agreed to do eight pictures a year at a rate of $2,500. Randy Rides Alone was the sixth of nine Lone Star pictures starring John Wayne that Monogram would release in 1934.

Lindsley Parsons was the publicity director at Monogram Pictures. Randy Rides Alone was the third screenplay that Lone Star Productions bought from him. The script was later described as "the epitome of a Lindsley Parsons story", partially because of the unusual opening scene.

Harry Fraser wrote in his memoir that the films he did with John Wayne "did not break any box office records. But they were fair entertainment, and Wayne, as he told me many years later, never worked harder in his life than he did on those little shoot-'em-ups." Fraser excelled at making films cheaply.

The film was shot from late April to early May near Placerita Canyon and in Santa Clarita, California. Yakima Canutt did some of John Wayne's stunts. One required Canutt to jump off a bridge from atop his horse. Canutt's viability as Wayne's stunt double increased as Wayne improved his horsemanship. They worked closely together to create a better screen product and became close friends.

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