The Defiant Ones
One of the great ones!
7.1(328) 1958-08-14 96 minCrimeDramaAdventureThriller
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
DirectorStanley Kramer
ProducerStanley Kramer
Original Music ComposerErnest Gold
WriterNedrick Young
WriterHarold Jacob Smith
Cast & characters
Tony Curtis
as John 'Joker' Jackson
Sidney Poitier
as Noah Cullen
Theodore Bikel
as Sheriff Max Muller
Charles McGraw
as Capt. Frank Gibbons
Lon Chaney Jr.
as Big Sam
King Donovan
as Solly
Claude Akins
as Mack
Lawrence Dobkin
as Editor
Whit Bissell
as Lou Gans
Carl Switzer
as Angus
Kevin Coughlin
as Billy
Cara Williams
as Billy's mother
Ned Glass
as Doctor
Nedrick Young
as Prison Guard
