The Wild One | Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy | Marlon and his Band of Biker Boys are Coming......

The Wild One | Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy | Brando meets the cast of "The Blob"

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The Wild One

	The Wild One Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy Sony Pictures, 1998 average customer review:based on 58 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Marlon and his Band of Biker Boys are Coming......

3 years after the legendary Marlon Brando shot to stardom in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and he uttered "Stella hey Stella" two years later he was "the Wild One". The 1953 classic about a biker rebel and his motorcycle gang who crash a small town to party and party more. Brando is amazing, electrifying, really cool as a biker, one of his greatest films. Marlon is a god of American Cinema among Bogart, Stewart and Grant. If You love Marlon Brando, see this awsome classic soon.

Brando meets the cast of "The Blob"

What happens when you put Marlon Brando in with the cast of The Blob? You get The Wild One! Instead of black Silly Putty terrorizing a small town you have a biker gang. The towns people are afraid that the gang (Blob) will overtake the town and so they take matters into their own hands when the local sherrif isn't getting the job done. Of course in their zeal they become worse vigilantes than the gang (Blob) was. Hey I won't kid you this is a "B" movie. But Brando could have been delivering lines from a Harley Davidson repair manual would it really matter? I mean can anybody understand all his mumbling anyway? Of course not.....he was the king of the incomprehensible (I wonder if that's a word). Yet I defy anybody who sees this film to take their eyes off him even for a minute.....you can't! Is he Olivier.....No.....is he Pacino.....No.....is he mesmerizing.....A RESOUNDING YES! Other than Mary Murphy who is stunning in the girl role, Lee Marvin who is wasted, and a small part by Jerry Paris there would be no other reason to watch this film but for Brando. A true original and easily one of the greatest movie actors ever.

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Attitude is Everything

The gangs appear to have strayed from a Bowery Boys slapstick onto a set from a 1930's western, with a budget of $50 and a director nowhere to be found -- still and all, the film proved remarkably adept at capturing a postwar mood among the young. Nothing may have looked real, but kids of the day got the message. History had not ended in 1945: there was still a restless spirit out there that could not be captured by pre-war malt shops and Saturday night hops. The inarticulate Johnny (Brando) is the perfect embodiment of that angst. He's groping toward something, but what. The gang rides around aimlessly, with no more knowledge of the road ahead than of themselves. Then too, it's the elderly Jimmy, representative of an older, slower America, who's revealingly run over by a run-away cycle. The sweetly pretty Mary Murphy attracts Brando, but she's a baited trap -- he could end up like her father or the townspeople. Does he ever return to her... is the trophy gesture a promise or a farewell... Though severely lacking in some respects, the script wisely leaves such ultimate questions unanswered. And through it all, Brando, in black leather jacket, remains a powerful yet enigmatic presence. A worthy and enduring icon.

Younger viewers might keep in mind that the movie was produced not only at the height of the Cold War, but at the height of the Mc Carthy purges in Hollywood. This, I think, accounts for much of the film's schizophrenia -- many punches were pulled. No one wanted a movie that cast America's youth in a bad light. So despite what was hinted at on screen, audiences were also told that everything is really alright. Level-headed authority (Jay C. Flippen) remains in charge and these are really overgrown boys who will eventually straighten out -- just look at their childish horseplay. It's Brando's smouldering presence that undercuts this comforting message. The audience senses that somewhere behind the defiant slouch lies a wisdom superior to the bland reassurances, if only he could find the words. Those, I suppose, would come 15 years later and in far different rebellious circumstances. Anyway, this is a Brando showcase without which the movie would lie long forgotten.

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He was a sweet beautiful guy

To think that this film was banned in England for 20 years makes one cringe in disbelief - one of Woody Allen's characters is right when he intones that all the things we were told as children that were good for us turned out bad - milk, meat, sun, big cars- and all the the things that we were told were bad for us turned out good - leather jackets, motor cycles, bebop, nature. But to The Wild One. Yes it's dated. The jive language doesn't fit with white middle class men dressed up in leather jackets, and Mr Brando is much to sweet, self conscious, and beautiful to be considered wild. Men and women alike are rushing to if not hug and kiss him, just look. He's caged for similar reasons. The arty camerawork on the bike ride at night with girl on the back doesn't quite work, but it's not a bad movie. The main attraction is really the beauty of Mr Brando. The first shot of the bikes heading towards us down the country road is a memorable opening.

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brando before he got fat and untalented.

The entire time length that takes place in this movie is like less than one day. Brando and his Black Rebel Motorcycle Club cronies spend the day being retarded in some bar in some town. The only reason I could think to watch this movie is so you could see that at one point, in a galaxy far far away, Marlon Brando was a cool dude. Before arrogance seeped out of his body like sweat, he was a guy you'd want to see in a movie. Now, obviously, he's dead and like most actors who were in old movies, has been elevated to 'legend' status, despite only being in a handful of good movies. This movie was released in 1954, and I know I've become a bit jaded by Pulp Fiction and anime, but as far as I'm concerned, 1950's B&W movie or not, its not very good. The begining, end, acting, story, etc., just isn't that great, and it's really nothing more than a cult film about motorcycles.

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