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The Defiant Ones is a 1958 American drama film which tells the story of two escaped prisoners, one white and one black, who are shackled together and who must co-operate in order to survive. It stars Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier. The film was adapted by Harold Jacob Smith from the story by Nedrick Young, originally credited as Nathan E. Douglas.
The Defiant Ones: Directed by Stanley Kramer. With Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Cara Williams, Theodore Bikel. Two chained-together escaped convicts, White and Black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.
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- Crime, Drama
- Stanley Kramer
- 1958-09-27
Released Sep 27, 1958 1h 37m Drama. List. In 1950s America, members of a chain gang are being transported through the South when their truck crashes. Two of the...
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- Tony Curtis
- Stanley Kramer
- Drama
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A prison truck is transporting a group of convicts when it runs off the road and crashes. Two convicts escape: Joker (Tony Curtis), a white man, and Cullen (Sidney Poitier), a Black man. They loathe each other, especially as Joker is an ignorant racist.
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The Defiant Ones. 1958 · 1 hr 37 min. TV-PG. Crime · Drama. Two convicts bound together by an unbreakable iron chain escape a Southern work gang and must put aside their differences in order to evade capture. Subtitles: English.
