The Wild One |  | Director: Laslo Benedek
Actors: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin, Jay C. Flippen
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 13,421
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 79 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 043396062399
ISBN: 0767818172
UPC: 043396062399
EAN: 9780767818179
ASIN: 0767818172
Theatrical Release Date: 1953
Release Date: November 10, 1998
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This is the original motorcycle movie, starring Marlon Brando as the brooding leader of a biker gang that invades a small town. The film always looked like one of those synthetic Hollywood ideas of subculture life in the 1950s, which means it looks even more artificial today. But it is an actor's piece more than anything, and toward that end Brando's performance really is an important one in the context of his revolutionary reinvention of film acting during that decade. Directed by Lásló Benedek (Namu, the Killer Whale) and produced by the socially conscious Stanley Kramer. --Tom Keogh
Product Description
A rebel biker tries to go straight for the love of a good girl but his redemption is threatened by a psychotic rival.
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 Cute Bikes and Cute Kids in 1950's Inland California August 27, 2006
cvairag (Allan Hancock College)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Contrary to what is seen in the "clips", the film does contain
The Best Line in Film.
The old guy asks Brando "Where are you kids going, anyway?"
Brando: "You don't go anywhere, dad. You just go."
A lot of the film may appear quaint in a world where images of extreme violence, and unchecked self-interest are pervasive - I haven't seen it in well, something like 40 years. I remember it as being a bit dated even in the 60's. But, as a social document, I have a hard time believing that the gulf between what one reviewer here calls "the cast of the Blob" (a good and probably literally accurate ascription) or "Middle America" (as in What's Wrong with Kansas? or Schwarzeneggerville? - Hollister, CA, et al.) and those who seek the "open road", beats, bikers, and other souls who are able to recognize the source human freedom, is any closer to being bridged than it was back in those good ol' days, when we were more innocent and no less benighted.
SUPERB !!! RIVITING 50'S BIKER FILM !!! June 23, 2007
Felix The CAT (ohio)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I strongly disagree with the previous negative reviews of "The Wild One".
I suppose if films were made during the pre-Victorian era, we would have reviews bashing them because most (any?) of the current reviewers did not live during those times and are unlikely to understand the dialog from those times!!!
I do agree the dialog will seem a bit "corny" when viewed in 2007, however
having lived through the 1950's, "Hipsters" or "Beatniks" were some of the only "cool" people around and they DID speak this way!
Please don't confuse this film with the actual "corny" "B" sci-fi junk films released in the 50"s
This film is the definitive landmark biker film of the 1950's era.
As high tech as possible using 50's tech.
Superb costumes, music, acting, dialog, editing!! Supreme crisp black & white filming!!
If you are a collector of biker/cult films, as I am, you collection IS NOT complete WITHOUT this movie!!!
The classic Hollywood biker film December 5, 1998
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Marlon Brando and Lee Marvin depict bikers as only Hollywood can in a film inspired by actual events that took place in a town called Hollister during the late '40s. The movie along with the rebel biker image was sparked by a Time magazine cover showing a drunken shirtless biker lounging on his Harley-Davidson with a beer in both hands. It was a bit of bad press, reading something like the "downfall of society" or "outlaw bikers take over town" that originated the rebel H-D image and gave Hollywood the inspiration to create this timeless cult classic.
Smooth, a bit brash -- good entertainment... August 22, 2005
Lawrence Bird (Virginia USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Brando is weird but good, Marvin is generally plausible but brash... characteristics both carried through their careers. The story line loosely mimics Hollister, at least as far as one could go back in black and white days... do not look for modern chase-scenes, where buildings blow up killing everyone but the hero, or where there is some deep-dark-sinister plot... this is all about moodiness, taciturn rebellion, attitude and venting - even when there was little reason... but then who ever needed a reason. Motorcycles were enough of a reason - and these were all before they invented the weenie-button (electric start...).
Good flick, a classic... will put most under the age of thirty (who never heart of we beatnik) to sleep - so it has many practical uses...
Your Motorcycle Film Collection Should Start Here August 21, 1999
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Do not miss this original. Before Hollywood started mass producing increasingly awful, stereotyped, and trashy biker movies there was The Wild One. Very loosely based on actual events, this story spawned all those cheesy bike films that never even come close to The Wild One's solid storyline, great acting, and fabulous soundtrack. If you've ever suffered threw a lousy biker film, treat yourself to this wonderful film that is THE original. Just the sight of a very drunken Chino (Lee Marvin) riding into town on a Panhead to stir things up with Johnny's(Marlon Brando)Black Rebels is worth the puchase price.Long live the BRMC!
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