Barb Wire is a
1996 film based on the
Dark Horse comic book series
Barb Wire. The film was produced by
Brad Wyman and starred
Pamela Anderson. The movie was a
vehicle for
Baywatch star Anderson, intended to enable her to cross over from television to movie stardom.
The entire "Don't call me Babe" leitmotif of Barb Wire comes from the original advertising for the Barb Wire Dark Horse comic book, in which she said those words to differentiate herself from a buxom, slightly airy comic book heroine named "Babe" created by John Byrne.
Barb's motorcycles are a 900cc Triumph Thunderbird and a Triumph Tiger 900 (all-road model) made as water-cooled three-cylinder models by the new Triumph factory at Hinckley in Leicestershire.
The film is a re imagining of Casablanca, but set in 2017 during the Second American Civil War rather than Casablanca during World War II, and with some key roles being played by the opposite gender.[2]
