The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones

1958 | 1h 36m | Crime, Drama | TV-PG

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Brief Synopsis

Two convicts — one white and the other black — escape from a Southern chain gang while shackled to each other. Both men must overcome their prejudices to cooperate in their run for freedom.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Stanley Kramer

CAST

Tony Curtis

Sidney Poitier

Cara Williams

Theodore Bikel

Charles McGraw

Lon Chaney

King Donovan

Claude Akins

Lawrence Dobkin

Whit Bissell

Carl Switzer

Kevin Coughlin

PRODUCERS

Stanley Kramer

WRITERS

Nedrick Young

Harold Jacob Smith

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Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Defiant Ones, 1958.
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Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- The Defiant Ones (1958)
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Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Defiant Ones, 1958.

Related Videos

04:00
Defiant Ones, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Long Gone
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Producer-director Stanley Kramer begins what is perhaps his first altogether topical social-issue film with Sidney Poitier singing a W.C. Handy song, handcuffed to Tony Curtis, events leading to Sheriff Muller (Theodore Bikel) on the radio, in The Defiant Ones, 1958.
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Defiant Ones, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Old Fashioned Prayer Meeting
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Caught trying to steal food at a Southern work camp, handcuffed escaped cons Cullen (Sidney Poitier) and Joker (Tony Curtis) look like they'll be lynched at the whim of crew boss Mac (Claude Akins), until Big Sam (Lon Chaney Jr.) intervenes, in Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones, 1958.
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Defiant Ones, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Go South
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First shot of handcuffed prisoners Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier after the truck crash, no time for chat, while back at the site the dog trainer, sheriff and state police captain (King Donovan, Theodore Bikel, Charles McGraw) prepare to pursue, in Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones, 1958.
04:00
Defiant Ones, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) You're A Maker Or A Taker
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Escaped, handcuffed and incompatible convicts Joker (Tony Curtis) and Cullen (Sidney Poitier) finally reach the work camp where the latter was once incarcerated, slowly warming to each other on their first night in flight, in Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones, 1958.
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Defiant Ones, The - (Original Trailer)
Trailer
Two convicts, a white racist and an angry black man, escape while chained to each other. Starring Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis.

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