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