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The Defiant Ones(1958)
7.6
18K reviews
90%
Tomatometer
English
96 Minutes
Duration
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
Crime
Drama
Directors
Stanley Kramer
Writers
Nedrick Young
Harold Jacob Smith
Cast
Tony Curtis
Sidney Poitier
Theodore Bikel
Charles McGraw
Lon Chaney Jr.
King Donovan
Claude Akins
Lawrence Dobkin
Whit Bissell
Carl Switzer
race relations
prejudice
racial prejudice
racism
chained together
prison
african american
Relates stars
Tony Curtis
Sidney Poitier
Theodore Bikel
Charles McGraw
Lon Chaney Jr.
King Donovan
Claude Akins
Lawrence Dobkin
Whit Bissell
Carl Switzer
