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| Columbia Pictures | Release Date: February 1, 1954 |
Starring:
Hugh Sanders, Jay C. Flippen, John Brown, Lee Marvin, Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Peggy Maley, Ray Teal, Robert Keith, Will Wright
Summary:
Two rival motorcycle gangs terrorize a small town after one of their leaders is thrown in jail.
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This Stanley Kramer-produced film is the original biker movie.
Aside from Brando's performance, The Wild One hasn't aged well. Although its leather and chrome iconography and Brando's hipsterism inspired biker and rebel cults for decades to come, it fits all too snugly into the musty category of "cautionary tale." Its story ultimately reduces Brando's biker to the quintessential crazy mixed-up kid. [27 Jan 2002]
Inspired by an episode when a mob of youths on motorcycles terrorized a Californian town for an entire evening, this feature is long on suspense, brutality and sadism. Marlon Brando contributes another hard-faced 'hero' who never knew love as a boy and is now plainly in need of psychoanalysis.
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This clumsy, naive film was banned and argued about in so many countries that it developed a near-legendary status.
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