The Defiant Ones
71.49 %|Aug 14, 1958|Crime, Drama
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
Featured Crew
Ernest Gold
Original Music Composer
Frederic Knudtson
Editor
Stanley Kramer
Director
Stanley Kramer
Producer
Sam Leavitt
Director of Photography
Harold Jacob Smith
Writer
Clem Beauchamp
Production Manager
Nedrick Young
Writer
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
Ned Glass
Doctor
Nedrick Young
Prison Guard