Born to Be Wild (1938)

US:: NR 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.

Updated May 29 2020

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1938-02-16

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Keywords:

dynamite dog truck driver

FACTS

Runtime: 66 mins Rating: 0.0 Tag Line: GANGLAND RIDES the HIGHWAY! (original poster)

Cast

Ward Bond

Bill Purvis

Edwin Stanley

Randolph

Lew Kelly

Reilly, Diner Counterman

Byron Foulger

Husband

Robert Emmett Keane

J. Stearns Davis

Charles Williams

Company Spotter

Harrison Greene

J. Carroll Malloy

Ralph Byrd

Steve Hackett