Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Johnny: What are you someone that makes sandwiches or something? Mildred: What`re you rebelling against, Johnny?
Johnny: Whaddya got?
Kathie Bleeker: I wish I was going someplace. I wish you were going someplace. We could go together.
Sheriff Singer: I don`t get you. I don`t get your act at all, and I don`t think you do either. I don`t think you know what you`re trying to do or how to go about it. I think you`re stupid. Real stupid and real lucky. Last night you scraped by, just barely; but a man`s dead on account of something you let get started even though you didn`t start it.
Charlie Thomas: I`ve seen hoodlums like this before. If you don`t get tough with them the minute they get out of line you`re sunk. You`re the cop, aren`t you? If you can`t boot these jerks out there`s plenty of us can, even if we have to bust a few heads.
Chino: I love you, Johnny. I`ve been looking in every ditch from Fresno to here hoping you was dead.
Kathie Bleeker: You`re still fighting, aren`t you. You`re always fighting. Why do you hate everybody?
Johnny: Nobody tells me what to do. You keep needlin` me, if I want to, I`m gonna take this joint apart and you`re not gonna know what hit you.
Chino: That`s better Johnny. You know I miss you. Ever since the club split up, I miss you. We all missed ya... you miss `im? yea. The Beetles missed ya. All the Beetles missed ya. Come on Johnny, let`s you and me go inside and have a beer...
Kathie Bleeker: Well, what d`ya do? I mean, do you just ride around or do you go on some sort of a picnic or something?
Johnny: A picnic? Man, you are too square. I`m... I... I`ll have to straighten you out. Now, listen, you don`t go any one special place. That`s cornball style. You just go.
[snaps fingers]
Johnny: [opening narration] It begins here for me on this road. How the whole mess happened I don`t know, but I know it couldn`t happen again in a million years. Maybe I could of stopped it early, but once the trouble was on its way, I was just goin` with it. Mostly I remember the girl. I can`t explain it - a sad chick like that, but somethin` changed in me. She got to me, but that`s later anyway. This is where it begins for me right on this road.
Kathie Bleeker: Why are you trying to be so rude?
Johnny: I don`t like cops!
Kathie Bleeker: Where are you going when you leave here?
Johnny: [he pauses and just shrugs]
Kathie Bleeker: Don`t you know?
Johnny: Oh, man. we`re just gonna go!
Kathie Bleeker: I`m sorry, I can`t fight back. I`m too tired. It would be better, wouldn`t it? Then you could hit me.
Johnny: You think you`re too good for me. Nobody`s too good for me! Anybody thinks they`re too good for me, I make sure I knock `em over sometime. Right now, I could slap you around to show you how good you are and tomorrow, I`m someplace else and I don`t even know you or nothing.
Johnny: I`m afraid of you? Are you cracked?
Johnny: [as Charlie and other townsmen beat him up] My old man used to hit harder than that.
Sheriff Singer: I don`t know if there`s any good in you. I don`t know if there`s anything in you. But, I`m gonna take a big fat chance... and let you go.
Sheriff Singer: [to Johnny] What`s a matter? You been hit on the head so often, you don`t know when you`re getting a break? At least say thank you.
[Nods to Sheriff Bleeker and Kathie]
Kathie Bleeker: It`s alright. He doesn`t know how.
[watching Johnny and Chino fight]
Charlie Thomas: What are they fighting about?
Jimmy: Don`t know. Don`t know themselves, probably.
Sheriff Singer: [referring to Johnny] You haven`t fallen for this fellow, have you?
Kathie Bleeker: No. No, I couldn`t.
Trivia
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This film was banned in Britain until 1968.
Marlon Brando and most of the Black Rebels ride Triumphs and other British motorcycles, while Lee Marvin and his boys ride Harley-Davidsons.
The Triumph motorcycle that Marlon Brando rides in the movie was his personal bike.
This was the first film in which the manufacturer`s logo on motorcycles was not blanked out. Johnson Motors, who imported Triumphs into the USA, protested at their product being linked with Brando and his Black Rebels, but the association served them well.
San Francisco Hell`s Angels chapter president Frank Sadilek bought the striped shirt that Lee Marvin wore in the movie, and wore it when meeting police officials.
Based on a 1951 short story in Harper`s Magazine entitled The Cyclists` Raid, which in turn was based upon a real-life incident in Hollister, California in 1947. The actual incident, however, bore little resemblance to the events depicted in the movie. Although spirited, the cyclists did not run amok or become violent. In fact, the bikers were invited back to Hollister over the July 4, 1997 weekend for a fiftieth anniversary celebration of the original incident.
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# Marlon Brando`s motorcycle is a 650cc Triumph Thunderbird. From stills, its registration number looks like 63632. Lee Marvin also owned a Triumph 200cc Tiger Cub upon which he competed in desert races. `Jr Gil Stratton` was featured in a print advertisement for Triumph motorcycles in 1963. He later became a well-known TV sports reporter in Los Angeles for decades.
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# Lee Marvin could not ride a motorcycle at the time of filming, but determined not to be bettered by the star (Brando) he quickly learned, later becoming a keen competitor on his Triumph 200cc Tiger Cub in desert races.
A popular still from the film shows an off-set Marlon Brando astride a Matchless twin cylinder motorcycle, it`s `M` logo gas tank badge being secured upside-down to resemble a `W`. This was stunt rider `Wally Allbright``s motorcycle.
Lee Marvin based his character, Chino, on real biker Willie Forkner ("Wino Willy"). Forkner rode with the Booze Fighters Motorcycle Club, and is considered a legend among bikers.
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# The film was rejected for a UK cinema certificate in 1954 and 1955 by the BBFC and was finally granted an X rating in November 1967 after a 13 year ban.
The name of Lee Marvin`s motorcycle gang is "The Beatles." Although it has never formally been acknowledged as an inspiration for the name of the 1960s rock band, the scene from the movie where Marvin introduces The Beatles is used at the beginning of The Beatles Anthology.
A photo of Marlon Brando as Johnny is featured on the cover of the Beatles` album, Sergeant Pepper`s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
# The leather jacket worn by Marlon Brando is a Schott NYC Perfecto 618, personalized by Brando by the addition of the epaulet stars. This style of jacket is still available.
Marlon Brando and Lee Marvin almost starred together again 19 years later in John Boorman`s Deliverance (1972). They were cast together in the film until Lee Marvin told director Boorman that he thought he and Brando were too old for their roles. Boorman agreed and cast Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds instead.
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Marlon Brando
(as Johnny Strabler | Narrator)
with Mary Murphy
(as Kathie Bleeker)
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