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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 the 1950's motif that the band leans toward.
"What are you rebelling against?"
"What have you got?"

Directed by László Benedek
Paul Donnelly
Produced by Stanley Kramer
Written by Novel:
Frank Rooney
Screenplay:
John Paxton
Ben Maddow
Music by Leith Stevens
Cinematography Hal Mohr
Editing by Al Clark
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) Flag of United States December 30, 1953
Running time 79 min.
Country Flag of United States USA
Language English

Primary cast
Marlon Brando as Johnny Strabler and the narrator
Mary Murphy as Kathie Bleeker
Robert Keith as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
Lee Marvin as Chino
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)
From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_One

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  • "Jazzed-up hoodlums" are the worst kind of hoodlum

  • Brando wasn't gay wtf are you talking about? He was one of the biggest womanizers in Hollywood, he had 12 children with 6 different women.

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  • BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB

  • @reziztanze

    fuck you nazi...talking antisemitism and anti-communism like you do, you better belong to old europe, where people hate the american culture in its "anti-völkisch" , liberal and dissident way... american youth is not corrupted, you seem to be rather a nazi , not an american...

  • Amo esta película . Amo las Motos clásicas , Amo las cosas Vintage . Soy chileno , Nacido el 88 `, nadie entiende mi amor por las cosas de esa època , ni yo mismo .

  • @reziztanze FUCK the police!

  • Directed by Communist Jew Stanley Kramer. This was the first in a line of films to corrupt American youth! The Blackboard Jungle and Rebel Without a Cause were next!

  • Directed by Communist Jew Stanley Kramer. Films like this were meant to turn kids against their parents the police and authority.

  • @Buddlesful and in theBeatles anthology dvd's the "Beetles" scene appears

  • @MrLUCIFER616 lolol

  • A bunch of spoiled brats.

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