

The Defiant Ones
1958-08-14 · 96 min · ★ 7.2
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
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- Directors
- Stanley Kramer
- Production companies
- Curtleigh Productions, Stanley Kramer Productions, United Artists
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
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Tony CurtisJohn 'Joker' Jackson
Sidney PoitierNoah Cullen
Theodore BikelSheriff Max Muller
Charles McGrawCapt. Frank Gibbons
Lon Chaney Jr.Big Sam
King DonovanSolly
Claude AkinsMack
Lawrence DobkinEditor
Whit BissellLou Gans
Carl SwitzerAngus
Kevin CoughlinBilly
Cara WilliamsBilly's mother
Ned GlassDoctor
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