Johnny and his vicious biker gang invade a small, sleepy 1950s California town after one of their leaders is thrown in jail by a sheriff. But then John finds himself attracted to the sheriff's daughter and decides to stick around.
Brando's biker seems disarmingly tame by comparison with the wild angels he spawned. Yet the film isn't half bad.
Filmcritic.com
September 26, 2002
On the whole, The Wild One is now mostly silly.
DVDLaser
December 03, 2004
Marlon Brando stars as the leader of a motorcycle gang who somewhat inadvertantly cause a great deal of trouble in a small town.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
November 25, 2002
Once radical, still iconic, but so dated that it's funny.
EmanuelLevy.Com
July 21, 2006
The film is outdated and its message overly stated, but in 1953, Brando's rebel unwittingly became a new screen hero and heralded the arrival of the Beat Generation.
The Wild One (1953), a landmark film of 50s rebellion by director Laslo Benedek, producer Stanley Kramer, and screenwriter John Paxton, was based on a Harper's Magazine
