Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

Timerider The Adventure of Lyle Swann, directed by William Dear, is a 1982 time travelinfluenced action film starring Fred Ward as Lyle Swann, a cross country dirt bike racer. The movie was scored, produced and cowritten with director William Dear by Michael Nesmith.

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 Swanns 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 as the villagers scream which means Devil in Spanish. There, he meets a beautiful woman, Claire Cygne Belinda Bauer, who gives him a safe place to hide and severely wounds one of Reeses men Carl Dorsett Tracey Walter. The village priest Ed Lauter compels them to withdraw, but Reese continues to plot the capture of Swanns dirtbike. In the village, Swann is seduced by Claire and sleeps with her, but she is later kidnapped by Reeses henchman Claude Dorsett Richard Masur as revenge for her shooting and wounding his brother Carl. They also manage to capture the dirtbike, leading to a series of hijinks, while Swann gets help from a posse of two U.S. Marshalls, Ben Potter and Daniels L. Q. Jones, Chris Mulkey who are trying to capture or kill the gang. Potter has a personal vengeance against Reese, for Reese killed Potters son two years previously. Swann manages to retrieve his dirtbike and rescue Claire. Potter is killed by Reese in an ambush, and his 2nd, Daniels, is mortally wounded and dies later.In a final showdown, Reeses band of outlaws faces Swann, the last survivor of the posse, and Claire atop a plateau. When a helicopter shows up sent by the builders of the time travel experiment to take Swann home, Reeses men run away in fear, but Reese stays behind and fires at the helicopter, killing or wounding one of the pilots. The helicopter begins spinning wildly as the copilot tries to maintain control, kno

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