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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.
- (17K)
- Crime, Drama
- Stanley Kramer
- 1958-09-27
The 1987 G.I. Joe the Movie has the temporarily blinded Roadblock and the former Cobra Commander working together to escape Cobra-La; this was a deliberate reference to The Defiant Ones by writer Buzz Dixon. In his second autobiography Why Me, Sammy Davis Jr. revealed that Elvis Presley wanted to star with him in this film.
- $2.75 million (US and Canadian rentals)
- Stanley Kramer
- $778,000
- Ernest Gold
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 ...
- (257)
- 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) I Don't Go South 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.
Two convicts (one white, one black) serving time on a chain gang in the deep South are set free by an accident. Seething with mutual distrust, they flee into treacherous woodlands and swamps-hunted by helicopter and bloodhounds.
