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Simply A Masterpiece

Absolutely brilliant

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

. . . during the first twelve months of a self-appointed American Taliban censoring EVERY line of dialog and image BEFORE normal people could watch (all under the Thumb of the most extensive ring of THOUSANDS of child sex predators that has ever stalked U.S. Innocents!), more than half of many movies are left out, including much of RANDY RIDES ALONE. Only the most Gifted Reconstructionists are able to exercise their intellect and fill in the gaps at this late date, so here goes: "Sally Rogers" is the Madame of "The Half Way House," a bordello MORE isolated than Nevada's infamous Mustang Ranch, where so many of Today's NBA players hang out. Since FDR's banking laws did not cater to the Criminal Class as do Today's, Ms. Rogers must keep her $30,000 cash profits (about one and a half Trumps, adjusted for inflation) made off her working girls on the Half Way House premises. When rival crime-lord "Marvin Black" rubs out Sally's bouncer and several of her regular johns, she turns to John Wayne to save the local Hen House. However, Wayne wants Sally all for himself, so he arranges to have Marvin blown up with the Half Way House.

This movie begins with a lone cowboy by the name of "Randy Bowers" (John Wayne) riding to a saloon on the outskirts of a small town out west. When he enters he notices 4 or 5 dead bodies and a safe that has apparently been ransacked. Unfortunately for Randy a posse arrives while he is looking at some remaining documents in the safe and he is arrested for murder. What neither he nor the sheriff realizes however is that there was someone still inside the saloon who was watching everything that happened. Not only that, but as the movie progresses it becomes even more obvious that things aren't necessarily as they seem. Now, as far as the merits of this movie are concerned I must say that, even though it has John Wayne as the main character, this film was clearly produced before his rise to super stardom. Although he manages to hold his own as far as acting is concerned the rest of the cast were not nearly as competent. On that score it certainly didn't help that the script was extremely weak as well. Less critically, I have attributed the fact that this movie was filmed in black and white and lasts only 53 minutes as simply a product of its time (1934). Even so, I still have to call it like I see it and I have rated this movie accordingly. Slightly below average.

Another Wayne/Canutt/Hayes Lone Star entry, mostly enjoyable with the usual few tedious scenes thrown in. How any 52 minute movie can have tedious stretches is down to the love interest and various characters having to walk from one location to another. Riding is much more exciting after all!It has a good start, with Wayne entering a saloon only to be greeted with a blood-bath, or was it just a good night previous? Chin-bald Hayes plays 2 characters, one the top baddie and the other a good-guy mute who has to write his words down on scraps of paper - more tedium. The key moment in RRA is after the heroine has said no to him as the good guy he starts to scribble an answer down to try to change her mind. Then he and the scriptwriter realise it won't do any good with only 5 minutes left so he petulantly blurts out "I'm fed up with this" and becomes his True Evil Self to her.Some nice outdoor photography, nice print, nice scenes of the skinny Duke ambling around Alone before he's suddenly smitten with love. He improved his fight techniques in the coming years!

Randy Bowers (John Wayne) comes upon the Half Way House at just the right time to take a break from the trail, and discovers a slew of dead bodies inside, among them a man he was supposed to deliver a message to - Ed Rogers, proprietor of the establishment. He's observed by the dead man's niece Sally (Alberta Vaughn), from behind a hidden room, where she remained unobserved during the carnage."Randy Rides Alone" was directed by Harry Fraser. He uses a filming technique here as in other of his films, where he fast forwards the action from one location to another, usually involving a rider on a horse. It's pretty well done and appears quite innovative in these 1930's era Lone Star Westerns.Pre-Gabby George Hayes is on hand, sans whiskers, and this is the first time I've seen him as a villain. In fact it took a few scenes to realize it was him in a dual role, first as hunchbacked businessman "Matt the Mute", communicating via pencil and paper, only to turn into Marvin Black, leader of a gang of outlaws. Black's gang was responsible for the murders at Half Way House, in an attempt to coerce Sally into selling out to Matt/Marvin. Another staple player is here as well, Yakima Canutt as a Black henchman named Spike. Interestingly, Yakima portrayed a villain named Sam Black in another Fraser/Wayne oater, "Neath the Arizona Skies".There's a fair amount of time-killing horseback riding back and forth between Black's Gang and the Sheriff's posse, as John Wayne's character maneuvers to expose the bad guys. In the end, he saves the day by securing Sally Rogers' thirty thousand dollars, at the expense of destroying the Half Way House, where he exchanges some sticks of dynamite for the loot in a safe. Greedy Marvin Black attempts to open it with his six-shooter, and the explosion is a fitting end for the villain. In his best "Aw shucks" attitude, John Wayne falls under the spell of the pretty Sally Rogers, and alas, Randy rides alone no more!