

The Defiant Ones
1958 • 1h 36m • Crime, Drama, Adventure, Thriller
90%Rotten Tomatoes
One of the great ones!
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
- Director
- Stanley Kramer
- Writers
- Harold Jacob Smith, Nedrick Young
- Status
- Released
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Top 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



















