Born to Be Wild (1938)

Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using secondgear going down steep grades Davis the company vicepresident surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a 1000 bonus He tells them it is a load of lettuce Several miles out of Los Angelese they are stopped by a mob of lettucefarm workers on strike When the first crate is tossed off the truck it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens whom they had met at a restaurant She and her dog Butch played by a Credited dog named Stooge join them and they deliver their cargo and learn unscrupulous realestate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property