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Born to Be Wild

7.0 66 mins Action   Drama   1938
Republic Pictures  
Director(s): Joseph Kane

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.

Casts of Born to Be Wild

Ralph Byrd

as Steve Hackett

Doris Weston

as Mary Stevens

Ward Bond

as Bill Purvis

Robert Emmett Keane

as J. Stearns Davis

Ben Hewlett

as Wilson

Charles Williams

as Company Spotter

Davison Clark

as Stranger

Byron Foulger

as Husband

George Anderson

as Mayor

Edwin Stanley

as Randolph

Ben Hendricks Jr.

as Deputy

Sterlita Peluffo

as Manuela

Lew Kelly

as Reilly, Diner Counterman

Harrison Greene

as J. Carroll Malloy

George Magrill

as Hank

Anna Demetrio

as Cristobella

Sam Appel

as Mexican Waiter (uncredited)

Stanley Blystone

as Henchman (uncredited)

Al Bridge

as Kennedy - Trucker in Cafe (uncredited)

George Cleveland

as Stevens (uncredited)

Frank Darien

as Farmer (uncredited)

Eduardo Durant

as Mexican Band Leader (uncredited)

Robert Fiske

as Man (uncredited)

James Flavin

as Striker (uncredited)

Harry Harvey

as Wilson's Depot Henchman (uncredited)

Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian

as Thug (uncredited)

Jack Hendricks

as Townsman (uncredited)

Reed Howes

as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)

Tiny Jones

as Farmer's Wife (uncredited)

Ethan Laidlaw

as Henchman (uncredited)

Edna Lawrence

as Woman (uncredited)

Chris-Pin Martin

as Garcia (uncredited)

Pat McKee

as Thug (uncredited)

Dave O'Brien

as Trucker (uncredited)

Frank O'Connor

as Jim (uncredited)

Jack Rockwell

as Townsman (uncredited)

Carlos Ruffino

as Mexican Band Musician (uncredited)

Max Wagner

as Jake - Trucker in Cafe (uncredited)

Nellie Walker

as Woman (uncredited)

Dan White

as Striker (uncredited)

Maston Williams

as Masher in Diner (uncredited)

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