Born to Be Wild

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Ralph Byrd

Steve Hackett

Age : 43 | Popularity : 3%

Doris Weston

Mary Stevens

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Ward Bond

Bill Purvis

Age : 57 | Popularity : 21%

Robert Emmett Keane

J. Stearns Davis

Age : 98 | Popularity : 3%

Ben Hewlett

Wilson

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Charles Williams

Company Spotter

Age : 59 | Popularity : 3%

Davison Clark

Stranger

Age : 91 | Popularity : 8%

Byron Foulger

Husband

Age : 70 | Popularity : 7%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Screenplay	Nathanael West
Directing	Director	Joseph Kane
Department	Role	Name

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