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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 Lone Star Westerns made for ___MASK86___ by Wayne and director Robert N . Bradbury and the first pairing of Wayne with George " Gabby " Hayes . Earl Dwire ( October 3 , 1883  January 16 , 1940 ) was an American character actor who appeared in more than 150 movies between 1921 and his death in 1940 . Noted for his almost frightening long face , Dwire worked mainly as a villain in westerns , including " Riders of Destiny " ( 1933 ) with John Wayne in the first singing cowboy movie and " The Trail Beyond " ( 1934 ) opposite Wayne , Noah Beery , Sr ., and Noah Beery , Jr . He also appeared in Bob Steele vehicles such as " Alias John Law " ( 1935 ). Lawless Range is a 1935 Western film released by ___MASK40___ , directed by Robert N . Bradbury and starring John Wayne . He appears as a " singing cowboy " in the film , with his singing voice dubbed by Glenn Strange , who later found lasting film fame himself as Frankenstein ' s Monster . The Lawless Frontier is a 1934 American Western film directed by Robert N . Bradbury and starring John Wayne , Sheila Terry , George `` Gabby '' Hayes , and Earl Dwire . Robert N . Bradbury ( March 23 , 1886  November 24 , 1949 ) was an American film director and screenwriter who directed 125 movies between 1918 and 1941 . He is most famous for directing early Western films starring John Wayne in the 1930s , including " Riders of Destiny " ( 1933 ; an early singing - cowboy movie ), " The Lucky Texan " ( 1934 ), " West of the Divide " ( 1934 ), " Blue Steel " ( 1934 ), " The Man From Utah " ( 1934 ), " The Star Packer " ( 1934 ), " The Trail Beyond " ( 1934 ; co - starring Noah Beery , Sr . and Noah Beery , Jr .), " The Lawless Frontier " ( 1934 ), " Texas Terror " ( 1935 ), " Rainbow Valley " ( 1935 ), " The Dawn Rider " ( 1935 ), " Westward Ho " ( 1935 ), and " Lawless Range " ( 1935 ). These were inexpensively shot " Poverty Row " movies ; many were also written by Bradbury and almost all of them featured character actor George " Gabby " Hayes . Bradbury also shot numerous similar films during this period starring his son Bob Steele or Johnny Mack Brown . Bradbury occasionally billed himself as " Robert North Bradbury ", " R . N . Bradbury ", or " Robert Bradbury ".