Pray for the Wildcats

Pray for the Wildcats is a 1974 U.S. television movie originally aired on ABC. The movie was an action-drama and was directed by Robert Michael Lewis and starred William Shatner and Andy Griffith. It co-starred Robert Reed, Marjoe Gortner, Angie Dickinson, and Lorraine Gary. It was released in 1987 on video by Republic Pictures Home Video. The story centers around Sam Farragut (Andy Griffith), a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees (Shatner, Reed, Gortner) to embark on a dangerous motorcycle trip to Baja California in order to compete for his business. Shatner stars as Warren Summerfield, a suicidal middle-aged ad executive who has been fired from the agency. Reed co-stars as the straight-laced Paul McIlvian who is disattentive to his wife (Dickinson). Gortner is the young brash art designer feels suddenly trapped after his girlfriend (Janet Margolin) announces she is pregnant. The movie has numerous long sequences of motorcyle riding on desert backroads. The Mexican town scenes were shot on location at Old Tucson. The running time is 100 minutes.

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• IMDB entry for Pray for the Wildcats