Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
| Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann | |
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Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann theatrical poster
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| Directed by | William Dear |
| Produced by | William Dear |
| Written by |
Michael Nesmith William Dear |
| Starring |
Fred Ward Peter Coyote Belinda Bauer Ed Lauter Tracey Walter L. Q. Jones Richard Masur Chris Mulkey |
| Music by | Michael Nesmith |
| Cinematography | Larry Pizer |
| Edited by | R.J. Kizer |
| Distributed by | Jensen Farley Pictures |
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94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $6,000,000 |
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, directed by William Dear, is a 1982 time travel–influenced action film starring Fred Ward as Lyle Swann, a cross country dirt bike racer. The movie was scored, produced and co-written (with director William Dear) by Michael Nesmith.
Lyle Swann (Fred Ward) 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 Esther 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 (Peter Coyote). 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 dirtbike scare the local Mexicans, who think he is the Devil or 'El Diablo' (Spanish for 'The Devil').
There, he meets a beautiful woman, Claire Cygne (Belinda Bauer), who gives him a safe place to hide, and who severely wounds one of Reese's men Carl Dorsett (Tracey Walter). The village priest (Ed Lauter) compels them to withdraw, but Reese continues to plot the capture of Swann's dirtbike. In the village, Swann is seduced by Claire and sleeps with her, but she is later kidnapped by Reese's henchman Claude Dorsett (Richard Masur) as revenge for her shooting and wounding his brother Carl.
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