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The Defiant Ones
Directed by
Stanley Kramer
Not Rated
1958
1h 36m
Drama
,
Crime
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7.6
90%
88%
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Two chained-together escaped convicts, one white and one 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 / Writer
Stanley Kramer
Director / Producer
Harold Jacob Smith
Writer
The Defiant Ones Ratings & Reviews
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."
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.
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.
Pittsburgh Courier
Ches Washington
Both Curtis and Poitier turned in superb performances.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Baltimore Sun
Hope Pantell
It is a picture to be put on everyone's "must" list.
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.
San Francisco Examiner
Hortense Morton (Screen Scout)
The Defiant Ones, from dramatic story and thespian standpoints, is perfect.
Los Angeles Times
John L. Scott
One of the best action-suspense movies of the year.
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.
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.
Motion Picture Daily
James M. Jerauld
The impression of reality lingers on after the picture has been unreeled.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
Director Kramer makes a story of human understanding slowly carved out of two men's common violence, loneliness and desperation.
Variety
Fred Hift
The performances by Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier are virtually flawless.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Kramer was never much of a director, but there's still power in some of the performances, especially Poitier's.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
It is nervous and suspenseful from the start.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Groundbreaking.
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