The Wild One Page #2

Synopsis: Cop-hating Johnny Strabler is recounting the fateful events that led up to the "whole mess" as he calls it, his role in the mess and whether he could have stopped it from happening. The Black Rebels, a motorcycle gang of which Johnny is the leader, cause a ruckus using intimidation wherever they go, with their actions bordering on the unlawful. On the day of the mess, they invade a motorcycle racing event, at which they cause a general disturbance culminating with one of the gang members stealing a second place trophy to give to Johnny. Despite not being the larger winning trophy, it symbolizes to Johnny his leadership within the group. Their next stop is a small town where their disturbance and intimidation tactics continue. Some in town don't mind their arrival as long as they spend money. Harry Bleeker, the local sheriff, doesn't much like them but is so ineffective and weak that he doesn't do anything to stop them, much to the annoyance of some of the other townsfolk, who see the g
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Laslo Benedek
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
NOT RATED
Year:
1953
79 min
913 Views


- Forget it, Art. Forget it.

- Some cop, huh?

- See Johnny back him down?

Yeah. What a screwball town.

Art Kleiner's too old

to be driving an automobile.

Where was he going, anyway?

Always going someplace.

Crazy, excited.

Taking a lot of vitamin pills, drinking.

Over-stimulated.

Ought to arrest

the whole lot of them.

Call the militia.

- Do you want something?

- Yeah. I'd like a bottle of beer.

- The beer's just in the bar.

- Alrighty.

Why, thank you.

Look, Harry.

The fender's scraping in the tyre.

Wait a minute.

There you are. It won't scrape no more.

Good as the rest of them.

Oh, no. Harry, aren't you

gonna do something about this?

- Well, what do you expect me--?

- What do you want Harry to do?

Arrest all these boys? All 30 or 40

of them and whatever there is?

It's the principle. You let something

like this go by and anything goes.

- That's right. Make your complaint, Art.

- I sure will.

That's silly.

Your car is okay, you're okay.

And it's lucky, the way you drive.

- Say, you live here all the time?

- All my life.

We've been over to Carbonville,

at the meet.

Bunch of motorcycles came through

this way yesterday.

They didn't stop. Is that what they give

you in those races for killing yourself?

That's right.

You want it?

- No.

- Well, go on, take it. Go ahead.

- No.

- Go on.

You can't do that. You won it.

You have to get your name engraved

on it, whatever you do. It's important.

You don't give something like that away

just like that.

Not unless you knew a girl real well

and you liked her.

Hey, Johnny.

About this town,

they've got a doc here.

They'll rewire Crazy. What are we gonna

do? Sit around and scratch ourselves?

Are we gonna wait for Crazy,

or are we gonna get out of this dump?

We're gonna wait for Crazy.

Go.

Go, go.

Hey, you guys! Johnny says we're

gonna hang around and wait for Crazy.

They're gonna fix him up.

- What do we do here?

- Give me a swig of this, will you?

Don't fight, boys. Plenty more where

this came from. It's ice-cold too.

- Hey, doc.

- Yeah.

Hey, where do we eat?

Right there. Bleeker's Cafe.

We'll take good care of you.

- You got some steaks?

- Kansas City steaks?

Well, we serve good meat.

- Where's the motel?

- The hotel is right over there.

Hey, they've got a hotel here.

- Hey, come on, lead me to that brew.

- Hey, check the hot rod.

Hey, the fire went out!

How are you doing, blondie?

Hey, baby. Where you going?

Well, look who's here.

- What'll you have, girls?

- Yeah, what will it be, girls?

- The usual.

- The usual. All right, just one minute.

- And hit us with a couple of beers.

- Jimmy, put a couple more cases on ice.

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John Paxton

John Paxton (May 21, 1911, Kansas City, Missouri - January 5, 1985, Santa Monica, California) was an American screenwriter. He was married to Sarah Jane, who worked in public relations for 20th Century Fox.Some of his films include Murder, My Sweet in 1944, Cornered in 1945, Crossfire in 1947 (an adaptation of the controversial novel The Brick Foxhole that earned him his only Oscar nomination). He helped adapt the screenplay for the controversial movie The Wild One in 1953 starring Marlon Brando. Paxton's work twice received the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay, for Murder, My Sweet and Crossfire. more…

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