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Born Wild Reviews

  • 1968
  • 1 hr 40 mins
  • Drama
  • PG
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Melodrama about racial tensions among Mexican-American students in a U.S. border-town school. Tony: Tom Nardini. Janet: Patty McCormack. Bruce: David Macklin. Raquel: Joanna Frank. Emmet: Sammy Vaughn. Paco: Zooey Hall. Directed by Maury Dexter.

This film seems to say that any garbled idea that lends itself to loud music and violence is good enough for the youth trade. Take a Mexican-American student strike for equality, stuff it with mayhem and steamy talk, and you have BORN WILD, another shallow commentary on the time. Nardini is the strike leader seeking a peaceful solution while his vicious opposite number, Macklin, provokes bloody beatings, a rape, gang fights, and finally a visually interesting but pointless battle in an airplane junkyard. This so-called social study gets a "D" for dumb.