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The Defiant Ones
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
1958 · Directed by Stanley Kramer · 96 min · Crime · Drama · Adventure · Thriller · 10 frames
Tagline
One of the great ones!
Crew
- Written by: Harold Jacob Smith, Nedrick Young
- Cinematography: Sam Leavitt
- Edited by: Frederic Knudtson
- Music: Ernest Gold
- Production design: Rudolph Sternad
- Produced by: Stanley Kramer
Cast
- Tony Curtis as John 'Joker' Jackson
- Sidney Poitier as Noah Cullen
- Theodore Bikel as Sheriff Max Muller
- Charles McGraw as Capt. Frank Gibbons
- Lon Chaney Jr. as Big Sam
- King Donovan as Solly
- Claude Akins as Mack
- Lawrence Dobkin as Editor
- Whit Bissell as Lou Gans
- Carl Switzer as Angus
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Curtleigh Productions, Stanley Kramer Productions, United Artists
- Themes: escape, mississippi river, freedom, hostility, swamp, bias, racist, escaped convict, chain gang, man hunt
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