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The Wild One
Johnny and his vicious biker gang invade a small, sleepy 1950s California town after one of their leaders is thrown in jail by a sheriff. But then John finds himself attracted to the sheriff's daughter and decides to stick around.
13 March 1911, East Saint Louis, Illinois, USA
12 July 1920, Casey Township, North Dakota, USA
26 October 1922, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
4 April 1904, Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK
25 July 1925, San Francisco, California, USA
6 June 1927, New Jersey, USA
15 July 1906, Manila, Philippines
11 March 1929, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
10 February 1898, Fowler, Indiana, USA
9 November 1920, Arkoma, Oklahoma, USA
February 8, 1900 in Birtley, Durham, England, UK
2 June 1922, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
February 10, 2004
Ultimately The Wild One exploits and patronizes the bikers it depicts, and isn't the youth picture it is made out to be.November 25, 2002
Once radical, still iconic, but so dated that it's funny.November 07, 2007
The first and best biker movie.April 04, 2001
Brando's magnetism is eternal.August 19, 2005
Risible and outdated.January 26, 2006
Brando's biker seems disarmingly tame by comparison with the wild angels he spawned. Yet the film isn't half bad.December 03, 2004
Marlon Brando stars as the leader of a motorcycle gang who somewhat inadvertantly cause a great deal of trouble in a small town.July 21, 2006
The film is outdated and its message overly stated, but in 1953, Brando's rebel unwittingly became a new screen hero and heralded the arrival of the Beat Generation.March 10, 2003
This Stanley Kramer-produced film is the original biker movie.January 01, 2000
The Wild One (1953), a landmark film of 50s rebellion by director Laslo Benedek, producer Stanley Kramer, and screenwriter John Paxton, was based on a Harper's MagazineNovember 07, 2007
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.September 26, 2002
On the whole, The Wild One is now mostly silly.