Born to Be Wild

Born to Be Wild

GANGLAND RIDES the HIGHWAY! (original poster)

NR 1938 · 66 min · ★ 7.5 · Action, Drama

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.

Directed by Joseph Kane · Written by Nathanael West

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Ralph Byrd Steve Hackett
Doris Weston Mary Stevens
Ward Bond Bill Purvis
Robert Emmett Keane J. Stearns Davis
Ben Hewlett Wilson
Charles Williams Company Spotter
Davison Clark Stranger
Byron Foulger Husband
George Anderson Mayor
Edwin Stanley Randolph
Ben Hendricks Jr. Deputy
Sterlita Peluffo Manuela

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