The trailer of this great Marlon Brando classic, THE WILD ONE (1953). The Wild One is a 1953 outlaw biker film. It is remembered for Marlon Brandos 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 Harpers 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. While at one point Johnny does threaten Kathy that he could take their cafe apart so fast they wont know what hit them, if they dont stop needling him, the bikers for the most part are just generally rowdy in pursuit of a good time, and dont radiate the sinister menace seen in later biker movies based on the Hells Angels, some of whom actually appeared in those films. Interestingly, Sonny Barger, the notorious founder of the Oakland Hells Angels, stated in his memoir that he identified with Chino, and considered Johnny the bully. youtube/watch?v=-Cg_4keMt08
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:14:15 +0000
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