Summaries

A maverick motorbike racer wanders into a top-secret time-travel research test site which unintentionally teleports him to the mid-1800s and ends up having to fight violent outlaws for his survival.

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....—Tognacci Sebastiano <[email protected]>

Lyle Swann is a well-known dirt bike motorcycle racer who is in the desert competing in the Baja 1000, a multiclass vehicle cross-country race. Swann has a reputation for being a great rider but is plagued by technical problems from the high-tech gadgetry he incorporates into his C and J framed XT500 Yamaha. When Swann accidentally goes far off course, he stumbles across a time travel experiment that utilizes "maser velocity acceleration" to send objects (in this case, a simian subject by the name of Ester G) back in time. Swann rides through the field and gets sent back to November 5, 1877. The scientists in charge of the experiment soon realize what has happened, but Swann rides off, unaware of what has happened to him, before he can be returned to the present. While taking a swim break in a local spring, he runs into a gang of outlaws led by Porter Reese. Reese becomes obsessed with stealing Swann's motorcycle, and the outlaws pursue Swann into the small village of San Marcos, but his red suit and dirt bike scare the local Mexicans, who think he is the Devil or 'El Diablo' as the villagers scream which means 'Devil' in Spanish. There, he meets a beautiful woman, Claire Cygne, who gives him a safe place to hide.—Wes Benton

Details

Keywords
  • cult film
  • motorcycle
  • time travel
  • 19th century
  • western town
Genres
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Sci-Fi
  • Western
Release date Jan 20, 1983
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) PG
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Old Tucson - 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Production companies Eaves Movie Ranch Zoomo Productions

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 34m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

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