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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.
12 January 1902, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
28 August 1917, Johnson, Iowa, USA
3 September 1921, New York City, New York, USA
6 June 1927, New Jersey, USA
26 October 1922, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
25 March 1922, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 March 1894, San Francisco, California, USA
March 28, 1914 in Lindina, Wisconsin, USA
31 January 1914, Blountstown, Florida, USA
5 November 1923, Harlengin, Texas, USA
6 March 1899, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
15 July 1906, Manila, Philippines
9 November 1920, Arkoma, Oklahoma, USA
11 March 1929, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
9 September 1873, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
4 March 1914, Dallas, Texas, USA
20 March 1884, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
15 June 1917, Alabama, USA
2 July 1899, Bethany City, Missouri, USA
5 February 1915, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
March 10, 2003
This Stanley Kramer-produced film is the original biker movie.
September 26, 2002
On the whole, The Wild One is now mostly silly.
August 19, 2005
Risible and outdated.
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
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.
April 04, 2001
Brando's magnetism is eternal.
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.
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
The first and best biker movie.
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.
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The film is outdated and its message overly stated, but in 1953, Brando's rebel unwittingly became a new screen hero and heralded the arrival of the Beat Generation.