THE WILD ONE (1953)
O SELVAGEN, DER WILDE, IL SELVAGIO,SALVAJE THE WILD ONE TRAILER (1953) The Wild One is a 1953 outlaw biker film. It is remembered for Marlon Brando’s portrayal of the gang leader Johnny Stabler as a juvenile delinquent, dressed in a leather jacket and driving a 1950 Triumph Thunderbird 6T. Acting opposite of Brando was Lee Marvin as a rival gang leader. This low-budget production had Brando playing a rebel without a cause two years before James Dean. The film version was based on a January, 1951 short story in Harper’s Magazine “The Cyclists’ Raid” by Frank Rooney that was published in book form as part of “The Best American Short Stories 1952.” The story took a cue from an actual biker street party on the Fourth of July weekend in 1947 in Hollister, California that was elaborately trumped up in Life Magazine (dubbed the Hollister riot) with staged photographs of wild motorcycle outlaw revellers. The Hollister event is now celebrated annually. In the film, the town is located somewhere in California. Deemed scandalous and dangerous, the film was banned by the British Board of Film Censors from showing in the United Kingdom for fourteen years. Its first UK public showing, to a mostly Rocker audience being at the then famous 59 Club of Paddington in London. It is notable that current rock group Black Rebel Motorcycle Club got their name from the name of Brando’s motorcycle gang, although one of the bikers calls the gang “Black Rebels Motorcycle Club”. This also ties in to …
Yet another example of a trailer completely skewing the film’s meaning…No wonder people think this is a “totally crap, dated old movie” (*cough*). They expect to see one thing, and get the opposite.
I mention Brando in The History Song.
A legendary paedophile who sexually abused his own daughter?
No one cares what you think, Marlon Brando is a legend..
A totally crap, dated old movie. The bisexual Brando was far too old.
Where’s the full movie?
I LOVE Marlon Brando. Yummmmaaay!
Lee Marvin, nuf said.
He coulda been the man without a name in those westerns.
Lee Marvin was the real star of this movie,he usually is..The Beatles also got their name from this movie…
classic total classic this was cool before cool was invented
This movie is the reason the Beatles are named the Beatles. The Beatles’ first bass player Stu Sutcliffe (who died before the Beatles got famous) was a huge Marlon Brando fan. He watched the scene in this movie where Lee Marvin says to Brando, “All the beetles have missed you.” “Beetles” was slang for “motorcycle girls.” Sutcliffe told John Lennon their group should be named the Beetles, and John added the “a” (for “beat”) and the name “Beatles” was born. (Info from THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY book.)
@bebe1001 there peices of junk especially the new ones. I have respect for the old ones but the new ones are a shit load of work to maintain anf they fall apart
saw this in school today it whas awesome even if its black and white and so old its kinda better than the movies ive seen in the past few years
Everyone in this dated film was too old, especially the bisexual Brando.
As for him being old for the part, most bikers are not nor were they young kids. Actually Lee Marvin’s character looks even older.
looks like a normal weekend away to me…….
My mother complaned to me that my father took her to see this movie more times than she could count. One night after seeing it they took a spill on the scooter when she was pregnant with me. Didn’t know it at the time. She was just scuffed up a bit and good ole dad broke all five toes on his right foot. My father was the last surviving origanal member of the Jolly Rogers MC when he died. The club is still trying to get his patch back.
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LOL @ “jazzed-up hoodlums”
Great movie, though. Marlon Brando was one sexy BAMF.
this like the tunnel snakes in fallout 3 “tunnel snakes rule!”
Marlon Brando didn’t ride a Harley. According to the official definition of “fag”, Brando did not qualify.
Well hes got further than you ever will
South Park references rule
Yes he actually admitted to having sex with men.
Didn’t realize how of a fag Marlon Brando is.
love these ads but hate the way the writing covers the screen
and could anbody tell me if theres any teeny teeshirts worn in this film..haha