Other Titles • Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann • Timerider (1982) • Timerider - Die Abenteuer des Lyle Swann (1983) • Adventure of Lyle Swan
Synopses for Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
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As time-travel adventures go, this 1983 outing is an enjoyable one: a loosey-goosey shaggy-dog story about an '80s kind of guy who gets tossed back to the '70s--the 1870s, that is. Fred Ward plays the hero, a motocross racer who, along with his motorcycle, accidentally rides into the middle of a science experiment and is transported to the Old West. There, he runs into a cast of bad guys that includes some of the best character actors of the period: L.Q. Jones, Tracey Walter, Richard Masur, Ed Lauter, and Peter Coyote. It's your classic fish-out-of-water setup, with Ward as the slightly dippy wise guy who startles the heck out of the cowboys and pioneers of the period with his motorized bike, until he runs out of gas. The movie runs out of fuel as well, but it's an enjoyable ride while it lasts. Notable for its coproducer and cowriter: Michael Nesmith, formerly of the Monkees. --Marshall Fine
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Fred Ward stars in this early 1980s science fiction movie as Lyle Swann, a motorcross racer who, while traveling through Mexico on his bike, gets caught in a time warp and sent back to the 1870s. Unaware that anything has happened, Swann soon finds himself nearly out of gas and finds the nearest town. Though the locals express fear and confusion when he approaches them in his racing gear and asks where the nearest gas station is, he still doesn't realize that anything has happened. Unfortunately, he runs into a gang of criminals who not only rape and kill at will, but take him for a demon.
(15 votes)
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Timerider is a winner!" -Los Angeles Times
Lyle Swann (Fred Ward) is a champion off-road racer who accidentally gets zapped into a government time-travel experiment and sent 100 years into the past. But when a gang of brutal bandits steals his motorcycle, Swann must outsmart the local desperadoes and submit to the desires of a beautiful outlaw woman (Belinda Bauer). Armed with only his limited wits and a map from an Exxon station, can Lyle Swann survive the wild west and get back to one final freaky twist of his future?
Peter Coyote, L.Q. Jones, Ed Lauter and Richard Masur co-star in this cult favorite co-written and directed by William Dar (Harry and the Hendersons) and produced, co-written and scored by Michael Nesmith (Repo Man, Elephant Parts, The Monkees).
(15 votes)
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