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| Marlon Brando | ... | Johnny Strabler / Narrator | |
| Mary Murphy | ... | Kathie Bleeker | |
| Robert Keith | ... | Sheriff Harry Bleeker | |
| Lee Marvin | ... | Chino | |
| Jay C. Flippen | ... | Sheriff Stew Singer | |
| Peggy Maley | ... | Mildred | |
| Hugh Sanders | ... | Charlie Thomas | |
| Ray Teal | ... | Uncle Frank Bleeker | |
| John Brown | ... | Bill Hamegan | |
| Will Wright | ... | Art Kleiner | |
| Robert Osterloh | ... | Ben | |
| Robert Bice | ... | Wilson | |
| Yvonne Doughty | ... | Britches | |
| William Vedder | ... | Jimmy | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Wally Albright | ... | Cyclist (uncredited) | |
| Don Anderson | ... | Stinger (uncredited) | |
| Timothy Carey | ... | Chino's Boy #1 (uncredited) | |
| Keith Clarke | ... | Gringo (uncredited) | |
| Jim Connell | ... | Boxer (uncredited) | |
| Ted Cooper | ... | Racer (uncredited) | |
| George Dockstader | ... | Cyclist (uncredited) | |
| John Doucette | ... | Sage Valley Race Official (uncredited) | |
| Darren Dublin | ... | Dinky (uncredited) | |
| Richard Farnsworth | ... | (uncredited) | |
| Sam Gilman | ... | (uncredited) | |
| Joe Haworth | ... | One of Chino's Boys (uncredited) | |
| Harry Landers | ... | GoGo (uncredited) | |
| Eve March | ... | Dorothy (telephone operator) (uncredited) | |
| Mort Mills | ... | Deputy (uncredited) | |
| Alvy Moore | ... | Pigeon (uncredited) | |
| Mary Newton | ... | Mrs. Thomas (uncredited) | |
| Pat O'Malley | ... | Sawyer (uncredited) | |
| Jerry Paris | ... | Dextro (uncredited) | |
| Gene Peterson | ... | Crazy (uncredited) | |
| K.L. Smith | ... | One of Chino's Boys (uncredited) | |
| Angela Stevens | ... | Betty (uncredited) | |
| Gil Stratton | ... | Mouse (uncredited) | |
| John Tarangelo | ... | Red (uncredited) | |
| Bruno VeSota | ... | Simmonds (uncredited) | |
| Blackie Whiteford | ... | Bystander at Art's Accident (uncredited) | |
Directed by | |||
| Laslo Benedek | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Ben Maddow | uncredited | |
| John Paxton | writer | |
| Frank Rooney | novel "The Cyclists' Raid" | |
Produced by | |||
| Stanley Kramer | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Leith Stevens | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Hal Mohr | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Al Clark | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Rudolph Sternad | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Walter Holscher | |||
Set Decoration by | |||
| Louis Diage | |||
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Paul Donnelly | .... | assistant director | |
Sound Department | |||
| George Cooper | .... | sound engineer | |
Stunts | |||
| Fred Carson | .... | stunt double: Marlon Brando (uncredited) | |
| Larry Duran | .... | stunts (uncredited) | |
| Richard Farnsworth | .... | stunts (uncredited) | |
| Whitey Hughes | .... | stunts (uncredited) | |
| Carey Loftin | .... | stunts (uncredited) | |
| David Sharpe | .... | fight double: Marlon Brando (uncredited) | |
| Tom Steele | .... | fight double: Lee Marvin (uncredited) | |
Music Department | |||
| Morris Stoloff | .... | musical director | |
| Arthur Morton | .... | orchestrator (uncredited) | |
| Shorty Rogers | .... | music arranger (uncredited) | |
Other crew | |||
| Jim Cameron | .... | technical advisor (uncredited) | |
| Willie Forkner | .... | technical advisor (uncredited) | |
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An early Brando vehicle, The Wild One has the air of a local genre for the postwar American youth, determined to strike out and be different from the previous generation - despite little idea of what the alternative is. Of course, there is no real genre at work in this sort of movie but the rise of the youthful celebrity typified by Brando and the obvious climate for generational schism brought by the end of the war specifically midwived films such as this.
Brando is very watchable - I particularly like an early sequence, where, despite his determination to defy any expectation, he gets trapped into following a bargirl (Mary Murphy) around like a puppy. His aimlessness is well calibrated, offset with the defining line of the movie: 'What are you rebelling against?' asks a local. 'What have you got?' ripostes Brando's Johnny.
Also popping up on screen is a necessarily over the top Lee Marvin as an amigo/antagonist counterpart to Johnny and a brilliantly ineffectual yet despondently wise town Sheriff, given by Robert Keith. He alone sees the ever-turning circle of young growing up but is rendered powerless by the very circumstance that gives this study in the unassuming, self-education of youth its ring of temporal genre. With equally committed performances across the rest of the ensemble, the film becomes more than a document though. 6/10