Review of The Wild One (1953) by Senor C — 27 Aug 2009
I used to work with an older woman who was in HS when this movie came out. She told me all the kids glommed on to it and walked around her HS going "vroom vroom!" desperately wanting motorcycles.
55 years later... I can kinda see why. Marlon Brando was at the peak of his sex appeal and he really knew how to ride a motorcycle and look utterly cool and sexy whilst doing it.
The movie itself is up there with Rebel Without a Cause in that it's a typical "the kids aren't all right" movie but the actors are a bit more high brow so it gets a pass. Thing of is is... I am WILDLY fascinated with these "kids aren't all right" movies of the time and the paranoia they must have caused in the straight laced white community. THIS is what white middle class America in the 50's feared- lawlessness, youth gone wild, sexual freedom, different people. They listened to JAZZ music and spoke like BEATNIKS.
Over all a worthwhile movie to see just to check out what your grandparents generation feared the most: change.
This review of The Wild One (1953) was written by Senor C on 27 Aug 2009.
The Wild One has generally received positive reviews.
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