In one of his most famous roles, Brando stars as the head of a savage motorcycle gang which terrorizes a small town. He gets his first real chance at a normal and productive life when he falls in love with a young woman who lives there, but a psychotic rival to his position as leader threatens everything.
Stanley Kramer's stylized portrait of America's rebellious youth is considered the original motorcycle movie.
Like a swarm of insects, Johnny's motorcycle club roams the countryside terrorizing one small-town after another. His gang of forty vicious hoodlums resents discipline, challenges authority and mocks convention. Riding into yet another township, they vandalize stores and trample private property. Meanwhile, Johnny romances Kathie, the pretty but repressed daughter of a local police officer. But when the gang spins out of control, an innocent man is accidentally killed and Johnny becomes the scapegoat.
A Stanley Kramer Company production.
Additional cast members include: Robert Osterloh, Robert Bice, William Vedder, Yvonne Doughty, Keith Clarke, Darren Dublin, Johnny Tarangelo, Gene Peterson, Harry Landers, Jim Connell, Don Anderson and Angela Stevens.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Collectors Edition
Full Frame - 1.33
Additional Release Material:
Trailers
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Director of Photography
Hal Mohr: American Director Of Photography/Director
Production Designer
Rudolph Sternad: Production Designer
Production Designer
Walter Holscher: Production Designer
Story
Frank Rooney: Author
Music Director
Morris Stoloff: Music Director/Conductor
Review 1:
"Laslo Benedek's film was the occasion for a defining Brando moment....[With] a line that helped launch several generations of adolescent, anarchic revolt."
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.29 07/16/2004
Review 2:
"[I]ts iconic status is down to Brando's camply brooding presence."
Source: Uncut
p.183 12/01/2004
Review 3:
"...A charged bout of denim-clad hooliganism, this grand-daddy of biker films is as legendary as its brutish leading man..."
Source: Total Film
p.122 05/01/2000
Review 4:
"[Brando is] relaxed yet electrifying..."
Source: Premiere
p.114 10/01/2004
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