MovieReleasedCrimeDramaAdventure

The Defiant Ones

"One of the great ones!"

Rating7.1/10

Release1958

Runtime1h 36m

Votes310

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

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Original Language

Release Date

August 14, 1958

Popularity

Production Companies

Curtleigh Productions

Stanley Kramer Productions

United Artists

Cast

Tony Curtis

John 'Joker' Jackson

Sidney Poitier

Noah Cullen

Theodore Bikel

Sheriff Max Muller

Charles McGraw

Capt. Frank Gibbons

Lon Chaney Jr.

Big Sam

King Donovan

Solly

Claude Akins

Mack

Lawrence Dobkin

Editor

Whit Bissell

Lou Gans

Carl Switzer

Angus

Kevin Coughlin

Billy

Cara Williams

Billy's mother

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