The Wild One
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Movie Reviews of The Wild One
Movie Review: Best Of The Bikers
Summary: 4 Stars
The was first famous "biker" movie and so it's dated, for sure, but still interesting. In fact, it's so dated in parts that it's charming. What surprised me was that some of the expressions of the day and the hand-slapping is still around today! I'll bet a lot of people did not know they didn't do these "hip" things so long ago.
Marlon Brando, as the lead character "Johnny Strabler," was fun to watch and Mary Murphy - an unknown actress to me - was very attractive as "Kathie Bleeker."
What looked strange was the bikers, in general. They looked so clean-cut it was almost laughable, hardly like the bikers since then. The gang member who did look the part was Lee Marvin as "Chino," who was a hoot the first time I saw this film but an overblown clown on subsequent viewings.
The movie had some nice film-noir photography, too, with some nice nighttime shots. 'The Wild One" is corny, but far better than many of the other '50s teen-rebellion stories.
Movie Review: Mesmerizing plot!
Summary: 4 Stars
With this movie Brando became in a icon for all a generation; somehow Brando meant the breakthrough with the past. His style and strong personality let him to establish not only as an irreverent actor but far beyond, but in an actor of multiple skills , with the trademark of a new method far away from the english models as Alec Guiness , John Mills or Michael Redgrave , and cold blood in his acting. He was altogether with James Dean , John Casvettes , Montgomery Clift , Dennis Hopper and Sal Mineo the pioneers , the new beat , the avant garde current of the cold war generation. This film was a special triumph for Lee Marvin too, another hard guy who would make his own bliss in antihero roles. (Dirty dozen)
In this movie the term Beatles is seen in a special sequence . Try to find it.
This film was clearly a visionary issue , thirteen years before Easy Rider for instance.
Marlon Brando : in memoriam!
Movie Review: The Future of the 1% Outlaw Biker
Summary: 4 Stars
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!Movie Review: 46 years later...
Summary: 4 Stars
I look at this film today through very different eyes than when I first saw it as a high-schooler in '54. Of course a lot of it seems hokey now, and with good reason: the world is a far less innocent place than it was in those bucolic, Eisenhower, pre-R&R days.
But when it first came out, it was Hot Stuff. Bad guys, noisy bikes, beer-drinking, and girls in tight sweaters were a big deal to us then.
Movie Review: The film that helped give The Beatles their name..
Summary: 4 Stars
John Lennon wanted something like the Crickets (Buddy Holly's band), and saw this film and named his band after the motorcycle gang: The Beetles. He changed the spelling to Beat les and had the perfect name that reflected his beat band.Not a review of the film but they could have ben called "The Shoes."