The Defiant Ones (1958)

Synopsis: Two escaped convicts -- one black (Poitier), one white (Curtis), and both shackled in the same pair of handcuffs -- battle the elements and each other as they travel Southern back roads eluding the... Two escaped convicts -- one black (Poitier), one white (Curtis), and both shackled in the same pair of handcuffs -- battle the elements and each other as they travel Southern back roads eluding the ever-approaching posse. Though the device of binding two racial antagonists together for survival may be rather obvious, the performances make the result compelling. Watch for Lon Chaney, Jr. along the way. [More]

Starring: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Lon Chaney

Starring: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Lon Chaney, Charles McGraw, King Donovan, Cara Williams, Kevin Coughlin, Lon Chaney, Claude Akins, Lawrence Dobkin, Whit Bissell, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer

Director: Stanley Kramer

Director: Stanley Kramer
Screenwriter: Nathan E. Douglas
Producer: Stanley Kramer
Composer: Ernest Gold
Screenwriter: Harold Jacob Smith

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