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.
15 June 1917, Alabama, USA
31 March 1924, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
4 April 1904, Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK
5 February 1915, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
5 December 1921, Vincennes, Indiana, USA
21 January 1921, Brockton, Massachusetts, USA
27 August 1921, Shasta County, California, USA
26 January 1931, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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August 8, 1908 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
3 September 1890, Forest City, Pennsylvania, USA
8 June 1926, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, USA
12 July 1920, Casey Township, North Dakota, USA
26 March 1894, San Francisco, California, USA
26 July 1925, Los Angeles, California, USA
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31 January 1914, Blountstown, Florida, USA
January 27, 1914 in Liverpool, England, UK
20 March 1884, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
13 March 1911, East Saint Louis, Illinois, USA
15 July 1906, Manila, Philippines
28 August 1917, Johnson, Iowa, USA
21 October 1914, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
11 March 1929, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
9 November 1920, Arkoma, Oklahoma, USA
31 August 1930, Elmhurst, New York, USA
26 July 1926, Brooklyn, New York, USA
November 25, 2002
Once radical, still iconic, but so dated that it's funny.
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.
September 26, 2002
On the whole, The Wild One is now mostly silly.
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 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.
November 07, 2007
The first and best biker movie.
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 Magazine
August 19, 2005
Risible and outdated.
April 04, 2001
Brando's magnetism is eternal.
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.
