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03/26/09
The Wild One (1954)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:16
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.1/10
Runtime: 79 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Stanley Kramer's stylized portrait of America's rebellious youth is considered the original motorcycle movie. Like a swarm of insects, Johnny's motorcycle club roams the countryside terrorizing... [More]
Starring: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin
Director: Laslo Benedek
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Reviews for The Wild One
Top CriticThe first and best biker movie.
11/07/07
Top CriticLegions of Brando impersonators have turned his performance in this seminal 1954 motorcycle movie into self-parody, but it's still a sleazy good time.
11/07/07
Top CriticThe film is outdated and its message overly stated, but in 1953, Brando's rebel unwittingly became a new screen hero and heralded the arrival of the Beat Generation.
07/21/06
No review available.
05/18/06
Brando's biker seems disarmingly tame by comparison with the wild angels he spawned. Yet the film isn't half bad.
01/26/06
Risible and outdated.
08/19/05
No review available.
05/16/05
No review available.
07/01/04
No review available.
05/02/04
Ultimately The Wild One exploits and patronizes the bikers it depicts, and isn't the youth picture it is made out to be.
02/10/04
Top CriticNo review available.
01/30/04
No review available.
08/22/03
This Stanley Kramer-produced film is the original biker movie.
03/10/03
Once radical, still iconic, but so dated that it's funny.
11/25/02
No review available.
10/04/02
On the whole, The Wild One is now mostly silly.
09/26/02
Brando's magnetism is eternal.
04/04/01
Provides a lot unintentional laughs.
01/01/00
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