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The Defiant Ones
Directed by
Stanley Kramer
1958
1h 36m
Not Rated
Drama
,
Crime
7.6
90%
88%
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Two chained-together escaped convicts, White and Black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.
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Cast of The Defiant Ones
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
Ned Glass
Doctor
Nedrick Young
Prison Guard
The Defiant Ones Reviews
New York Daily News
Kate Cameron
[Tony Curtis] gives the best performance of his screen career... Poitier is impressive, find Miss Williams gives a fine performance in the part of the lonely farm girl.
Movie Nation
Roger Moore
Kramer gets a message he felt America needed to hear and probably still needs to hear on the screen in an artful, just-edgy-enough and still-entertaining film that retains its claim as a "classic"
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Elston Brooks
Stanley Kramer, who has been responsible for some of Hollywood's greater motion pictures, has a little masterpiece in The Defiant Ones.
Miami Herald
George Bourke
Its message is absorbingly wrapped however, in elements of acute suspense and blood raw action that should excite even those who deplore the integration of sobering thought and fiction in their movie entertainment.
Los Angeles Times
John L. Scott
One of the best action-suspense movies of the year.
Village Voice
Jonas Mekas
One can feel that Kramer, instead of letting the idea grow from an inner necessity, started with a cliche: "Now I am going to make a social film."
Baltimore Sun
Hope Pantell
It is a picture to be put on everyone's "must" list.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Groundbreaking.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Harold V. Cohen
The Defiant Ones is a great one all the way. It's a throbbing photoplay made by a man with a conscience.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinee
If you have an open mind, and wish to understand and live at peace with your fellow man, you'll find it one of the finest pictures of this or any other year.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Kramer was never much of a director, but there's still power in some of the performances, especially Poitier's.
Detroit Free Press
Helen Bower
Stanley Kramer, his superb stars, featured players and the rest have put on record a powerful, tender definition of brotherhood.
Boston Globe
Marjory Adams
It is the genius and fiery faith of Kramer which has welded acting and story together and produced such a terrifying and yet tremendous cinema achievement.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Dickson Terry
Credit goes to producer, director and writers for a picture which combines a strong social document with about as much excitement and suspense as you could ask for.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mildred Martin
The Defiant Ones is a film no one with mind or heart is likely to forget in a long, long time.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
Director Kramer makes a story of human understanding slowly carved out of two men's common violence, loneliness and desperation.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
It is nervous and suspenseful from the start.
San Francisco Examiner
Hortense Morton (Screen Scout)
The Defiant Ones, from dramatic story and thespian standpoints, is perfect.
Pittsburgh Courier
Ches Washington
Both Curtis and Poitier turned in superb performances.
Variety
Fred Hift
The performances by Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier are virtually flawless.
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