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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
Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/18/23 Full Review Audience Member The Defiant Ones is an odd couple prison break drama pairing Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis on the run and free from ...
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- Tony Curtis
- Stanley Kramer
- Drama
A female landowner leads Jackson to make a difficult decision about his own freedom. — Jwelch5742. 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 ...
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Defiant Ones, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Old Fashioned Prayer Meeting 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 ...
