For other uses, see The Wild One (disambiguation).
The Wild One
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
László Benedek
Screenplay by
John Paxton Ben Maddow
Based on
Cyclists' Raid 1951 story in Harper's by Frank Rooney
Produced by
Stanley Kramer
Starring
Marlon Brando Mary Murphy Robert Keith
Narrated by
Marlon Brando
Cinematography
Hal Mohr
Edited by
Al Clark
Music by
Leith Stevens
Production company
Stanley Kramer Pictures Corp.[1]
Distributed by
Columbia Pictures
Release dates
December 30, 1953 (1953-12-30) (NYC)
February 1954 (1954-02) (US)
Running time
79 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
The Wild One is a 1953 American crime film directed by László Benedek and produced by Stanley Kramer. The picture is most noted for the character of Johnny Strabler, portrayed by Marlon Brando, whose persona became a cultural icon of the 1950s. The Wild One is considered to be the original outlaw biker film, and the first to examine American outlaw motorcycle gang violence.[2][3][4] The supporting cast features Lee Marvin as Chino, truculent leader of the motorcycle gang "The Beetles".
The film's screenplay was based on Frank Rooney's short story "Cyclists' Raid", published in the January 1951 Harper's Magazine and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1952. Rooney's story was inspired by sensationalistic media coverage of an American Motorcyclist Association motorcycle rally that got out of hand on the Fourth of July weekend in 1947 in Hollister, California. The overcrowding, drinking and street stunting were given national attention in the July 21, 1947, issue of Life, with a possibly staged photograph of a wild drunken man on a motorcycle.[5] The events, conflated with the newspaper and magazine reports, Rooney's short story, and the film The Wild One are part of the legend of the Hollister riot.
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