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The Defiant Ones
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The Defiant Ones

Aug 14, 1958
1h 36m
★ 7.1

One of the great ones!

Overview

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

Genres

Crime
Drama
Action
Adventure
Thriller

Production Companies

Curtleigh Productions
Stanley Kramer Productions
United Artists

Cast

Tony Curtis

John 'Joker' Jackson

Tony Curtis

Sidney Poitier

Noah Cullen

Sidney Poitier

Theodore Bikel

Sheriff Max Muller

Theodore Bikel

Charles McGraw

Capt. Frank Gibbons

Charles McGraw

Lon Chaney Jr.

Big Sam

Lon Chaney Jr.

King Donovan

Solly

King Donovan

Claude Akins

Mack

Claude Akins

Lawrence Dobkin

Editor

Lawrence Dobkin

Whit Bissell

Lou Gans

Whit Bissell

Carl Switzer

Angus

Carl Switzer

Kevin Coughlin

Billy

Kevin Coughlin

Cara Williams

Billy's mother

Cara Williams

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