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The Wild One is a american film of genre Drama directed by László Benedek released in USA on 30 december 1953 with Marlon Brando

The Wild One (1953)

The Wild One
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Released in USA 30 december 1953
Length 1h15
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating66% 3.348893.348893.348893.348893.34889

The Wild One is a 1953 American film directed by László Benedek and produced by Stanley Kramer. It is most noted for the character of Johnny Strabler (Marlon Brando), whose persona became a cultural icon of the 1950s. The Wild One' is considered to be the original outlaw biker film, and the first to examine American outlaw motorcycle gang violence.

The film's screenplay was based on Frank Rooney's short story "The Cyclists' Raid", published in the January 1951 Harper's Magazine and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1952. Rooney's story was inspired by sensationalistic media coverage of an American Motorcyclist Association motorcycle rally that got out of hand on the Fourth of July weekend in 1947 in Hollister, California. The overcrowding, drinking and street stunting were given national attention in the July 21, 1947 issue of Life Magazine, with a staged photograph of a wild drunken man on a motorcycle. The events, conflated with the newspaper and magazine reports, Rooney's short story, and the film The Wild One are part of the legend of the Hollister riot.

Synopsis

The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club (BRMC), a gang led by Johnny Strabler, rides into Carbonville, California during a motorcycle race and causes trouble. A member of the gang, Mouse, steals the second-place trophy (the first place one being too large to hide) and presents it to Johnny. Stewards and policemen order them to leave.

Actors

Marlon Brando

(Johnny Strabler)
Mary Murphy

(Kathie Bleeker)
Lee Marvin

(Chino)
Robert Keith

(Sheriff Harry Bleeker)
Jay C. Flippen

(Sheriff Stew Singer)
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