If you can handle the action, it's a great ride

A Great Ride

3.5 (4 votes)• 1979• 90m•Released

Drama

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Cocky, overconfident motocross champion Jim Dancer and his more mature and levelheaded bike racing buddy Steve Mitchell decide to trek from Mexico to Canada via an unmarked off-road route. During their eventful pilgrimage the carefree fun-loving (and seeking) protagonists encounter a mixed bag of folks who include a perky middle-aged lady who wrecks cars for a living, two sexy swinging babes, a friendly farmer, and a hotshot aspiring motocross rider teen who challenges Dancer to a race. This latter episode ends in tragedy, with the kid taking a fatal spill off his bike. So the kid's gung-ho militant gun fanatic father decides to hunt Dancer and Mitchell down in his sinister souped-up truck.

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Director: Don Hulette

Starring Cast: Perry Lang, Michael MacRae, Michael Sullivan, Ernie Garrett, Marc Alaimo, John Hoyt

Cast

Perry Lang

Jim Dancer

Michael MacRae

Michael Sullivan

Steve Mitchell

Ernie Garrett

Ernie

Marc Alaimo

Barry

John Hoyt

Jukebox Drunk

Dale Kalberg

Barry's Girl

Anthony Mannino

Sailor

Colby Smith

Waitress

Suzanne Horton

Odyssey Girl

Jan Burrell

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