The Defiant Ones
Aug 14 1958
•2h 36m
•Crime, Drama, Action, Adventure, Thriller
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
Cast
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Tony Curtis
John 'Joker' Jackson
Sidney Poitier
Noah Cullen
Theodore Bikel
Sheriff Max Muller
Charles McGraw
Capt. Frank Gibbons
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