Born to Be Wild

Born to Be Wild (1938) is a action, drama film directed by Joseph Kane rated 7.5/10.

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.

Cast

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