Movie
The Defiant Ones
Overview
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
Details
- Release date
- 1958-08-14
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Adventure, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Curtleigh Productions, Stanley Kramer Productions, United Artists
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Tony Curtis as John 'Joker' Jackson
- Sidney Poitier as Noah Cullen
- Theodore Bikel as Sheriff Max Muller
- Charles McGraw as Capt. Frank Gibbons
- Lon Chaney Jr. as Big Sam
- King Donovan as Solly
- Claude Akins as Mack
- Lawrence Dobkin as Editor
- Whit Bissell as Lou Gans
- Carl Switzer as Angus
- Kevin Coughlin as Billy
- Cara Williams as Billy's mother
Crew
- Stanley Kramer - Director
- Nedrick Young - Writer
- Harold Jacob Smith - Writer
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