An event that occurred in California (exactly in the town of Hollister) at the end of the forties, where a group of 4,000 motorcyclists and World War II veterans vandalized a town in the area, made the director of Hungarian origin Lazslo Benedek ("The Death of a Salesman (1951)") noticed him use it as a plot in his third film.
.JPG "Marlon Brando as the leader of a biker gang in Wild (1953)")
A title produced by Stanley Kramer (a respected filmmaker who tried to narrate in most of his works, both as producer and director, the social problems present in America at the time) and which was considered the first film that touched joint the world of motorcycles and the subgenre of street gangs, later titles such as "Motorcycle Gang (1957), "Scorpio Rising (1964)" and "Los Angeles del Infierno (1966)" by Roger Corman would continue.
Such as representing youth violence on the big screen, would cause many of the exhibitors to be reluctant to show it on its premiere date, as they feared that the work would incite young audiences to take an example. of the characters in the plot and they will end up destroying their movie theaters.
Regardless of the degree of controversy or controversy that its viewing may cause, what really makes the work famous is for having exalted one of the great myths of the seventh art, Marlon Brando, and it is that the actor with his character as Johnny Strabler, the charismatic leader of the motorcycle group (mythical image with a leather jacket and half-sided cap and riding a Harley), was going to make him one of the great icons films that best represented (together with James Dean) the youthful rebellion that existed in those years in the United States.
Accompanying Marlon Brando in this "Western on Wheels" (I consider it a Western because the biker gang that the film presents can remind us of that group of dangerous gunmen who arrive in a quiet town, seen many times in Western movies).
we would find Lee Marvin (he also participated that year in the film noir masterpiece "The Bribeds (1953)" by Fritz Lang) with his usual villain roles playing "Chino", the leader of another of the motorcycle gangs that they would visit the defenseless town, Mary Murphy ("Desperate Hours (1955)") as Kathie, the young woman who would make Jhonny fall in love and who would try by all means to get him to straighten the course of his life and Robert Keith (the actor who would return to repeat with Brando in the musical "Ellos y ellas (1955)"), in the skin of Harry Bleeker, the soft policeman who would try with good manners to maintain peace in the town.
Among his scenes, I mention the intense fight between Marlon Brando and Lee Marvin when they see their faces for the first time or the attack by the townspeople (tired of the abuse suffered) on a cornered Johnny. As a curiosity, the movie "Savage" was banned in England until 1968, when it would finally be screened.
