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T hink you know motorcycle mov- ies? We mean, do you really think you know motorcycle mov - ies? Well then, film buff, it is for you that CN presents this short quiz! Pencils ready? These crazy movie titles are so outrageous that you should be able to spot the phony! For absolute - ly no monetary reward at all, which one of these movie titles is a fake? A. Hell's Bloody Devils B. Angel Unchained C. Run, Angel, Run D. I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle E. Pray for The Wildcats No cheating! No browsing for an answer. Give up? The correct is "F!" None of the above! Yep, Hollywood fed our insatiable ap - petite for bad motorcycle movies with each of the above works of celluloid classics. Apparently, they believe that every motorcy- clist is on some lonesome road to eternity, heading for either the bliss of heaven, the fire of hell, or somewhere in between (vampire bikers, of course, are destined to forever roam the earth as the dreaded undead). In its January 22nd, 1974 issue, Cycle News offered up a review/preview of Pray for the Wildcats, which was an ABC television movie of the week. The cast packed some heavy 1970s star power: Andy Griffith (The Andy Griffith Show), William Shatner (Star Trek), Robert Reed (The Brady Bunch), and Angie Dickinson (Police Woman). The movie also stars Marjoe Gortner. A former child evangelist, Gort - ner seemingly wound up on every director's Rolodex for roles in bad motorcycle movies. Marjoe would later star in Sidewinder One, in which he rides a Maico with cast mag wheels, and we are proud to say that is all we know about that classic flick. In Pray For The Wild - cats. Griffith portrays Sam Farragut, whose company, Farragut Industries, manufac - tures heavy equipment. Shatner, Reed and Gort- ner are all employees of an ad agency, tasked with making a winning pitch to Farragut, who apparently is trying to establish a company footprint deep into the Baja Peninsula. There are other intriguing plot twists that threaten to make this movie almost watchable, but as doomed-for-eternity cycle riders, what we all want to know is how our motorized hounds of hell make their way into this juicy script! The haughty and arrogant Far - ragut decides that he will bring his business to the agency, with one caveat: he wants to take a ride into the Baja country for a site survey of the terrain—and the three ad execs will have to join him! Reluctantly, the boys accept the challenge, and off they go toward Ensenada, Griffith on a Triumph Trophy Trail sled and the three ad lackeys on two-stroke Kawasaki enduros. At the border, each man is presented with his own "Wildcat" CNIIARCHIVES P114 MOTORYCLES & HOLLYWOOD tures heavy equipment. with making a winning footprint deep into the twists that threaten to make this movie BY KENT TAYLOR We're guessing Pray for the Wildcats isn't in your DVD collection, but On Any Sunday is.