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An angry young Marlon Brando scorches the screen as The Wild One in this powerful '50s cult classic. Brando plays Johnny, the leader of a vicious biker gang which invades a small, sleepy California town. What's Johnny rebelling against? What have you got? - he sneers. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hell-bent for destruction until he falls for Kathie (Mary Murphy), a good girl whose father (Robert Keith) happens to be a cop. Unfortunately for Johnny, his one shot at redemption is threatened by a psychotic rival, Chino (Lee Marvin), plus the hostility and prejudice of the townspeople. All their smoldering passions explode in an electrifying climax!

1953 · 1h 19m
Director Laslo Benedek

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The Wild One

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An angry young Marlon Brando scorches the screen as The Wild One in this powerful '50s cult classic. Brando plays Johnny, the leader of a vicious biker gang which invades a small, sleepy California town. What's Johnny rebelling against? What have you got? - he sneers. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hell-bent for destruction until he falls for Kathie (Mary Murphy), a good girl whose father (Robert Keith) happens to be a cop. Unfortunately for Johnny, his one shot at redemption is threatened by a psychotic rival, Chino (Lee Marvin), plus the hostility and prejudice of the townspeople. All their smoldering passions explode in an electrifying climax!

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Average 7
Reviews 24
Fresh 18
Rotten 6

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Studio
Sony Pictures
Released
1953
Run Time
1 hr 19 min
Rated
Unrated
Region of Origin
United States
© 1953 renewed 1981 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Original Audio
English
Audio

English (United States) (AAC), Spanish (Latin America) (AAC)

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English (CC), Arabic , Danish , Dutch , Finnish , Greek , Hebrew , Hindi , Norwegian , Polish , Russian , Spanish (Latin America) , Swedish , Turkish

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.