Born To Ride

Unlike John Sturges's classic THE GREAT ESCAPE, which thrillingly depicted the mass breakout of Allied POWS from a Nazi detention camp, and in the bargain gave Steve McQueen his breakthrough role as a dauntless Yank pilot and ace motorcyclist, BORN TO RIDE is a mildly enjoyable pre-WWII action yarn which retains the former's physical military trappings and rebel lone-rider hero antics.

Opening in 1939 at Fort Manning Army Base in Kentucky, local punk mechanic and motorcycle ace Grady (John Stamos) enlists as a corporal to help the commanding officer train his men in the army's switchover from horses to cycles. Immediately his free-spirited habits antagonize his...