The first and best biker movie.
The Wild One (1954)
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Reviews Counted: 21
Fresh: 17
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 one small-town after another. His... 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 one small-town after another. His gang of forty vicious hoodlums resents discipline, challenges authority and mocks convention. Riding into yet another township, they vandalize stores and trample private property. Meanwhile, Johnny romances Kathie, the pretty but repressed daughter of a local police officer. But when the gang spins out of control, an innocent man is accidentally killed and Johnny becomes the scapegoat. [More]
Starring: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin
Starring: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin, Jay C. Flippen, Petty Maley, Hugh Sanders, Ray Teal
Director: Laslo Benedek
Director: Laslo Benedek
Screenwriter: John Paxton
Story: Frank Rooney
Producer: Stanley Kramer
Composer: Leith Stevens
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Reviews for The Wild One
Legions of Brando impersonators have turned his performance in this seminal 1954 motorcycle movie into self-parody, but it's still a sleazy good time.
The film is outdated and its message overly stated, but in 1953, Brando's rebel unwittingly became a new screen hero and heralded the arrival of the Beat Generation.
Brando's biker seems disarmingly tame by comparison with the wild angels he spawned. Yet the film isn't half bad.
Marlon Brando stars as the leader of a motorcycle gang who somewhat inadvertantly cause a great deal of trouble in a small town.
Ultimately The Wild One exploits and patronizes the bikers it depicts, and isn't the youth picture it is made out to be.
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