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Title: Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| 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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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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Both Fred Ward and Peter Coyote appeared together the previous year, 1981, in a movie called "Southern Comfort". In that movie Ward's character was called "Reese", the same name of Coyote's character in "Timerider". 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 ...
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The following comment includes a piece of the plot. If you plan to see the movie (and I recommend you do), do not read the rest of this.
Both Gene and Roger felt that the title character seemed stupid in that he didn't understand what had happened (i.e. that he went back in time) until the very end. I, on the other hand found it most believable. If you were lost in the desert, and you came across a _rural_ town, wouldn't it take quite a lot before you'd reach the conclusion "Oh, I must have gone back in time!"