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The Wild One
1953
Directed by László Benedek
Starring Marlon Brando
Marlon
Brando as Johnny Strabler,
leader of the rebellious
biker gang the “Black Rebels” in “The Wild
One” 1953
The
film (banned in
in a Californian town and is based on a
real event that happened in 1947.
This film is
still famous for the quotes;
"What
are you rebelling against?"
"Whadd'ya got?"
The Wild One
is a 1953 rebel biker film directed by László Benedek. It is remembered for Marlon Brando's
portrayal of the gang leader Johnny Strabler as a juvenile
delinquent, dressed in a leather jacket and riding 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 in Rebel Without a Cause (1955).
The Wild One
was based on a short story, "The Cyclists' Raid" by Frank Rooney, in
the January 1951 issue of Harper's Magazine. The story was later 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 written up in Life Magazine, and dubbed the Hollister riot,
with staged photographs of wild motorcycle outlaw revellers.
The Hollister event is now celebrated annually. The actual film is set in an
unspecified Californian town.
For the most
part, the bikers in the film are just generally rowdy in pursuit of a good time,
and don't radiate the sinister menace seen in later biker movies based on the
Hells Angels, some of whom actually appeared in those films.
A group of
local vigilantes, led by a businessman try to take on the bikers and beat up Brando. A local resident is killed in an accident for which
Marlon Brando is blamed.
The film was banned in Britain
Cast
Marlon Brando as Johnny
Strabler and the narrator
Mary Murphy as Kathie Bleeker
Robert Keith as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
Lee Marvin as
Jay C. Flippen as
Sheriff Stew Singer
Peggy Maley as Mildred
Hugh Sanders as Charlie Thomas
Ray Teal as Uncle Frank Bleeker
Richard Farnsworth (uncredited)
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