Born to Be Wild

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. Written by Les Adams Born to Be Wild is a 1938 American English-language Action Comedy movie starring Ralph Byrd, Doris Weston, Ward Bond, Robert Emmett Keane, Ben Hewlett, Charles Williams and Maston Williams. Republic Pictures was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Harold Shumate. The movie is directed by Joseph Kane. Republic Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Born to Be Wild was released on 16th February 1938 and takes a screen time of 66 minutes. The motion picture made a box office gross of $41 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Nathanael West. Cinematography was done by Jack A. Marta and editing by William Morgan
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