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Buy This Item Wild One by Sony Pictures  Available from Amazon  $19.98  on 11-16-2008     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 (<I>Namu, the Killer Whale</I>) and produced by the socially conscious Stanley Kramer. <I>--Tom Keogh</I> Reader Reviews This is the movie that started it all for the outlaw biker. Everyone including Sonny Barger (the most famous Hells Angel) saw this movie and wanted to become an outlaw. Unfortunately most bikers who gained their inspiration from this film identified more with Lee Marvin's character Chino then with Brando's Johnny. My personal interest in the biker lifestyle came more from Easy Rider than this flick, although I did use a Brando line from this film when I was a teenager and was called to the vice principal's office. He had the nerve to ask me what I was rebelling against to which I answered in my best Brando imitation, "Whatta ya got?". This film is a bit cornball with the dialogue and storyline but I give it 4 stars on the impact it had on the American Biker mystique. 1%ers forever!

Wild One Available from Amazon Price: $19.98 Updated on 11-16-2008.

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