Born to Be Wild
Born to Be Wild
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.
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Cast
George Magrill
as Hank
Frank O'Connor
as Jim (uncredited)
Dan White
as Striker (uncredited)
Lew Kelly
as Reilly, Diner Counterman
Reed Howes
as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Ethan Laidlaw
as Henchman (uncredited)
Jack Rockwell
as Townsman (uncredited)
Ralph Byrd
as Steve Hackett
Ward Bond
as Bill Purvis
Charles Williams
as Company Spotter
Sam Appel
as Mexican Waiter (uncredited)
James Flavin
as Striker (uncredited)
Dave O'Brien
as Trucker (uncredited)
Edwin Stanley
as Randolph
Stanley Blystone
as Henchman (uncredited)
Chris-Pin Martin
as Garcia (uncredited)
Davison Clark
as Stranger
Robert Emmett Keane
as J. Stearns Davis
Byron Foulger
as Husband
Al Bridge
as Kennedy - Trucker in Cafe (uncredited)
George Cleveland
as Stevens (uncredited)
Frank Darien
as Farmer (uncredited)
Anna Demetrio
as Cristobella
Harry Harvey
as Wilson's Depot Henchman (uncredited)
Doris Weston
as Mary Stevens
Ben Hendricks Jr.
as Deputy
Robert Fiske
as Man (uncredited)
