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starring: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin, Jay C. Flippendirected by: László Benedek
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303402086
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
ISBN: 6303402089
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: September 26, 1997
Running Time: 79 minutes
Sales Rank: 15459
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1953
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Best
"The Wild One" and not "Easy Rider" is the classic of bad boy motorcycle flicks (Sonny Barger of the Hells Angels describes Easy Rider as a movie about two dope dealers, not about bikers).
This is a fun flick with the best part, IMHO, the viewer being able to retro back to the classic bikes and biker clothing of the 1950s. Brando and Lee Marvin play great little roles and as many believe it is Lee Marvin whose character is the forerunner of the 1960s outlaw motorcyclist in tenor and ... Read More
Rating: - The movie of how it all started
The Movie that every motorcycle enthusiast should see. Sometimes I think the attitude hasn't changed that much... The story of how it all started. My biker movie collection is now complete. "We don't ride just any one place, that's cornball style".
Rating: - CLASSIC BIKER FLICK
THIS IS A MUST HAVE CLASSIC BIKER MOVIE. THIS IS ONE OF IF NOT THE FIRST RECOGNIZED MOTORCYCLE GANG MOVIE.IF YOUR A BIKER FAN YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS ONE.
Rating:  - Tykes on Bikes
Another in a long line of wrong roles for Brando, as well as a ridiculous collection of gentrified cycle rats, but despite this basic silliness, there is the girl--Mary Murphy whose conflicted desires stole the show--and the music...fun West Coast jazz featuring Kenton graduates, Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne (aka Manny Shell and Roger Short because of recording contract issues).
Sadly it was Marlon Brando who recovered from the train wreck rather than Mary Murphy.
Rating: - "Whatta ya got?"
This movie made in 1954 starring Marlon Brando and Lee Marvin was the first of the "biker" movies.
The film loosely depicts the 1947 biker melee that really happened and virtually destroyed the northern California town of Hollister. The script was a little weak for me.
Marlon Brando stars as Johnny, the leader of a biker gang (the Black Rebels) that invades a small town, Wrightsville.
The movie begins where the gang takes a road trip and crashes a motorcycle ... Read More
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