Manthast Absolutely amazing

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

JohnHowardReid Don't be deceived by the re-issue poster which prominently features George "Gabby" Hayes (sic). Oh, Hayes is in the movie all right. In fact, he plays two key roles, but neither is a "Gabby". One is the very reverse – a mute who writes copious notes on scraps of paper. You won't recognize the other "Gabby" either. Nevertheless, Hayes is excellent in both roles, and part of the reason for wanting to see this film is to enjoy George Hayes's dual, offbeat performances. John Wayne fans, however, are going to be a bit disappointed. True, he's in good form but, despite the fact that he's playing the title character, he isn't in the film for long stretches. Therefore, as you might expect, there's not a great deal of action and what there is – a couple of chases from fixed camera positions and a tame fist fight with Yak Canutt – is not all that inspiring, thanks to Harry Fraser's dull direction. Even the locations fail to impress – aside from the waterfall into which Yak, doubling for Wayne, does a spectacular dive! Still the story and its characters are mildly intriguing – and everyone remembers the chilling and really weird opening sequence. In fact, this is the most effective scene in the movie. The heroine is a bit of a write-off – and she has a large part too! Aside from Hayes, and perhaps Canutt, the support cast is totally uninteresting. However, all in all, although not one of Wayne's most exciting Lone Stars, "Randy Rides Alone" does have its points of appeal.

Uriah43 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.

FightingWesterner John Wayne enters a saloon to find a player piano tinkling the ivories to a room full of dead people and is promptly arrested! The real culprit is Hayes, who masquerades as kindly Matt the mute (!) and had the men killed as part of a land grab scheme.There isn't as much action in Randy Rides Alone as there is in some of the other John Wayne/ Lone Star productions, though there are a few good stunts courtesy of Yakima Canutt, the one where he leaps forward off a rolling horse being a particular standout.What really makes this good is the irresistible chance to see one of the few performances in which the clean shaven George Hayes plays a black-hatted heavy.Waynes quip, "That's the end of Matt the mute.", is priceless!

TEXICAN-2 This is a very good western. I have enjoyed all the early John Wayne adventures that I've seen.You have some twists with this show. One being Earl Dwire as a sheriff not a crook. The worst part of the show is that they tip you off to who's the bad guy early on, which destroys that part of the mystery. Oh, and Yakima Canutt's shirt looks like something that Roy Rogers passed on. Other than these complaints, it's a well made Saturday-Afternoon- at-the-movies type western.