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.
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September 26, 2002
On the whole, The Wild One is now mostly silly.
April 04, 2001
Brando's magnetism is eternal.
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 Magazine
March 10, 2003
This Stanley Kramer-produced film is the original biker movie.
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The film is outdated and its message overly stated, but in 1953, Brando's rebel unwittingly became a new screen hero and heralded the arrival of the Beat Generation.
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.
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Risible and outdated.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.
November 25, 2002
Once radical, still iconic, but so dated that it's funny.
November 07, 2007
The first and best biker movie.
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.
November 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.
