Marlon Brando scorches the screen in this powerful '50s cult classic about a biker gang that terrorizes a small California town. What's Johnny rebelling against? "What have you got?" he sneers. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hell-bent fofor destruction until he falls for Kathie, a "good girl" whose father happens to be a cop. Unfortunately for Johnny, his one shot at redemption is threatened by a psychotic rival, Chino--plus the hostility and prejudice of the townspeople. All their smoldering passions explode in an electrifying climax! 

Review

"This is the original motorcycle movie, starring Marlon Brando as the brooding leader of a biker gang that invades a small town. The film always looked like one of those synthetic Hollywood ideas of subculture life in the 1950s, which means it looks even more artificial today. But it is an actor's piece more than anything, and toward that end Brando's performance really is an important one in the context of his revolutionary reinvention of film acting during that decade. Directed by Lásló Benedek (Namu, the Killer Whale) and produced by the socially conscious Stanley Kramer." --Tom Keogh