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The Defiant Ones (1958)

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Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

Two chained-together escaped convicts, White and Black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.

Cast

  • Tony Curtis
  • Sidney Poitier
  • Theodore Bikel
  • Charles McGraw
  • Lon Chaney Jr.
  • King Donovan
  • Claude Akins
  • Lawrence Dobkin
  • Whit Bissell
  • Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer

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Metacritic

60

Uncomfortable viewing which isn't afraid to engage with race-related violence.

Metacritic review by Kim Newman
Kim Newman
Empire
78

Nearly a decade before the supper-table racial detente of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Kramer mined the subject matter of racial divisiveness in the groundbreaking The Defiant Ones, which paired Curtis and Poitier as hunky prison escapees unhappily bonded to each other by means of metal chains and the mutual need to survive.

Metacritic review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
80

The Defiant Ones combines Stanley Kramer’s trademark liberal politics with a picaresque adventure that is deftly entertaining, tense and heartfelt.

Metacritic review by Christopher Machell
Christopher Machell
CineVue