Born to Be Wild

Feb 16, 1938

1h 6m

★ 7.0

GANGLAND RIDES the HIGHWAY! (original poster)

Overview

Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.

Genres

Action

Drama

Production Companies

Republic Pictures

Born to Be Wild Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Steve Hackett

Ralph Byrd

Mary Stevens

Doris Weston

Bill Purvis

Ward Bond

J. Stearns Davis

Robert Emmett Keane

Wilson

Ben Hewlett

Company Spotter

Charles Williams

Stranger

Davison Clark

Husband

Byron Foulger

Mayor

George Anderson

Randolph

Edwin Stanley

Deputy

Ben Hendricks Jr.

Manuela

Sterlita Peluffo

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