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Poster for Born to Be Wild

Born to Be Wild (1938)

NR ★ 7.5/10 66 min Action, Drama United States English
Director: Joseph Kane
Screenplay by: Nathanael West
Streaming: Not available
GANGLAND RIDES the HIGHWAY! (original poster)

Description

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.

Top Cast

Ralph Byrd
Ralph Byrd Steve Hackett
Doris Weston
Doris Weston Mary Stevens
Ward Bond
Ward Bond Bill Purvis
Robert Emmett Keane
Robert Emmett Keane J. Stearns Davis
Ben Hewlett Wilson
Charles Williams
Charles Williams Company Spotter
Davison Clark
Davison Clark Stranger
Byron Foulger
Byron Foulger Husband

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