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Name: The Wild One
Released: 1954-2-1
Cast: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin, Jay C Flippen

The Wild One

PG
1h 19m
1954

75%

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An angry young Marlon Brando scorches the screen as The Wild One in this powerful '50s cult classic. Brando plays Johnny, the leader of a vicious biker gang which invades a small, sleepy California town. What's Johnny rebelling against? What have you got? - he sneers. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hell-bent for destruction until he falls for Kathie (Mary Murphy), a good girl whose father (Robert Keith) happens to be a cop. Unfortunately for Johnny, his one shot at redemption is threatened by a psychotic rival, Chino (Lee Marvin), plus the hostility and prejudice of the townspeople. All their smoldering passions explode in an electrifying climax!

Director:

Laslo Benedek

Producer:

Stanley Kramer

Writer:

John Paxton

Cast:

Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin, Jay C Flippen, Peggy Maley, Hugh Sanders, Ray Teal

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

75%

Reviews

Cinefilia

Yasser Medina

Aside from Brando's presence as the rebel with a cause, I find the way it interrogates motorcycle gangs and juvenile delinquency quite bland. [Full review in Spanish]

The Wild One's status as a cultural marker remains undeniable.

In [director] Laslo Benedek the American cinema has an unusual talent, with a solidity and a spirit of humane inquiry which gives this film, in its faults as well as its virtues, a genuine and independent quality.

A violent, frightening and quite distasteful melodrama about a gang of hoodlum cyclists (led by Marlon Brando) who terrorize a sleepy town. Some of the acting is excellent.

Marlon Brando turns in a tremendously powerful performance as the inarticulate, frozen-faced, truculent outlaw who heads the gang of motorcycle hoodlums.

January 25, 2018

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