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The Defiant Ones

One of the great ones!

19581h 36m7.1(324 votes)

CrimeDramaAdventureThriller

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

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Director

Stanley Kramer

Cast

Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis

John 'Joker' Jackson

Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier

Noah Cullen

Theodore Bikel

Theodore Bikel

Sheriff Max Muller

Charles McGraw

Charles McGraw

Capt. Frank Gibbons

Lon Chaney Jr.

Lon Chaney Jr.

Big Sam

King Donovan

King Donovan

Solly

Claude Akins

Claude Akins

Mack

Lawrence Dobkin

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