The Defiant Ones
About The Defiant Ones
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones is a 1958 crime thriller film. It runs 96 minutes and was released in August 1958.
Tony Curtis stars as John 'Joker' Jackson, Sidney Poitier as Noah Cullen, Theodore Bikel as Sheriff Max Muller, and Charles McGraw as Capt. Frank Gibbons. Written by Harold Jacob Smith and Nedrick Young.
Shelv files it under train, swamp, convict, and freedom. American members can watch it on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, and MGM Plus.
A Man Escaped, Down by Law, and Mississippi Masala make useful companions to The Defiant Ones, all filed under black and white, escape, and escaped convict. It scores 7.1 out of 10 from 340 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.