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The Defiant Ones(1958)
Status: Released
Date: 1958-08-14
71%
280 Votes
Time: 1h 36m
One of the great ones!
Overview:
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Curtleigh Productions
Stanley Kramer Productions
Movie: The Defiant Ones
Top 10 Billed 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
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