Timerider - The Adventure of Lyle Swann

Movie
German title	Timerider - The Adventure of Lyle Swann
Original title	Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1982
length	94 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	William Dear
script	William Dear, Michael Nesmith
production	Harry Gittes Lester Berman Michael Nesmith
music	Michael Nesmith
camera	Larry Pizer
cut	RJ Kizer Kim Secrist Suzanne Pettit
occupation
Fred Ward : Lyle Swann Belinda Bauer : Claire Cygne Peter Coyote : Porter Reese Richard Masur : Claude Dorsett Tracey Walter : Carl Dorsett Ed Lauter : Padre

Timerider - The Adventure of Lyle Swann is an American science fiction film from 1982. The film was released on video under the alternative title Timerider - With the cross machine on a journey through time .

action

Motorcycle ace Lyle Swann suddenly gets into a time travel experiment during the Baja 1000 rally and ends up in Mexico in 1877. There he experiences a number of adventures and has to deal with various representatives of the Wild West who initially made him think of his motorcycle helmet and his machine think for the devil.

After various adventures with the villain Porter Reese , during which Swan receives support from the Mexican beauty Claire Cygne , he manages to send a helicopter from the present to bring him back into the present. At the very end he remarks that a night of love with Claire led to him being his own great-grandfather .

criticism

“A well-played, but only moderately exciting adventure film that develops into a western with some anachronistic elements and an effective closing punch. Logical problems are only hinted at, the consequences of the mutual culture shock as well as the message of peacefulness are drowned in the crack of the gun. "

- Lexicon of international film

"By the time I left the film, after about 55 minutes, there wasn't a description, location, line of dialogue, camera angle or joke that could suggest that Timerider has the faintest idea of ​​what he's doing."

- Vincent Canby in the New York Times

background

In Germany, the film started on August 12, 1983 and was seen by around 185,000 cinema viewers.

Web links

• Time Rider - The Adventure of Lyle Swann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Timerider - The Adventure of Lyle Swann in the online movie database
• Timerider - The Adventure of Lyle Swann atRotten Tomatoes(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Timerider - The Adventure of Lyle Swann in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed April 23, 2012
2. ↑ Vincent Canby (January 21, 1983). "Biking Timerider". The New York Times.
3. ↑ Top 100 Germany 1983 on insidekino.de , accessed on April 23, 2012