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Title: Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
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| Fred Ward | ... | Lyle Swann | |
| Belinda Bauer | ... | Claire Cygne | |
| Peter Coyote | ... | Porter Reese | |
| Richard Masur | ... | Claude Dorsett | |
| Tracey Walter | ... | Carl Dorsett | |
| Ed Lauter | ... | Padre | |
| L.Q. Jones | ... | Sheriff Ben Potter | |
| Chris Mulkey | ... | Daniels | |
| Macon McCalman | ... | Dr. Sam | |
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Jonathan Bahnks | ... | Jesse |
| Laurie O'Brien | ... | Terry | |
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Susan Dear | ... | 2nd Technician |
| Bruce Gordon | ... | Earl | |
| Ben Zeller | ... | Jack Peoples | |
| William Dear | ... | 3rd Technician | |
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Lyle, a motorcycle champion is traveling the Mexican desert, when he find himself in the action radius of a time machine. So he find himself one century back in the past between rapists, thiefs and murderers.... Written by Tognacci Sebastiano <seblog@maya.dei.unipd.it>
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Lyle Swann is a champion off-road racer. But to the people of 1877, he's something very, very different...Parents Guide:
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12 August 1983 (West Germany) See more »Also Known As:
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Company Spokesperson: Ladies and gentlemen of the press, it is my pleasure to welcome you on behalf of International Computel Corporation to Project Timerider. Project Timerider is the 16th in our series of experiments in time travel, and today will be our first experiment with a live animal.
[murmurs in the audience]
Company Spokesperson: A live female Rhesus monkey named Esther G.
[some chuckles heard in the audience]
Company Spokesperson: This experiment, once again under the direction of Dr. Samuel Stellar, hopes to send Esther G. back in time ...
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Lyle Swann goes back in time to November 5th, 1877. The same "time travel arrival date" was used in Back to the Future (November 5th, 1955) and Time After Time (November 5th, 1979). See more »Goofs
Modern rubber tread is visible on the sole of Reese's shredded boot as it falls over (uncut version only). See more »Quotes
[first lines]Company Spokesperson: Ladies and gentlemen of the press, it is my pleasure to welcome you on behalf of International Computel Corporation to Project Timerider. Project Timerider is the 16th in our series of experiments in time travel, and today will be our first experiment with a live animal.
[murmurs in the audience]
Company Spokesperson: A live female Rhesus monkey named Esther G.
[some chuckles heard in the audience]
Company Spokesperson: This experiment, once again under the direction of Dr. Samuel Stellar, hopes to send Esther G. back in time ...
See more »
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In the original theatrical release, Porter Reese was so distracted by the destruction of the motorcycle that he did not notice the approach of the helicopter's tail rotor until it was too late -- there was a scream, a splattering sound, and a shot of empty gore-drenched boots. For the DVD release, the shot was replaced with pickup shot of Reese crawling on the ground; the audio, however, was not changed. The original sequence is preserved in the laserdisc release. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Well, it was a good idea. They just didn't do a lot with it. A guy on a motorcycle in the desert gets accidentally catapulted back in time by an experiment, and is himself unaware that this has happened.
I liked the people of the 19th Century town, and the chemistry between Lyle Swan (Fred Ward) and the local beauty there (Belinda Bauer) is a plus. Ward's acting is alright, playing the confused dummy lost in the past. However he is undermined by feeble scripting: neither his nor any other character grows or learns anything. The same jokes about futuristic marvels that he shows the astonished people get thin pretty fast, and some of the same dialog, like "Where's my bike?!?" even repeats.
There's only one common thread running through the story that has any meaning as far as the impact of time travel adventure goes, and if you blink, even that will zip by. A weak story that's just not written very well.