The Defiant Ones
by Stanley Kramer
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Actor: Charles McGraw, Lon Chaney Jr., Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Tony CurtisDirector: Stanley Kramer
Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt
Producer: Stanley Kramer
Editor: Frederic Knudtson
Writer: Harold Jacob Smith
Writer: Nedrick Young
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-12-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Defiant Ones
Movie Review: Classic black and white "black and white" film
Summary: 4 Stars
Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis are chain-gang convicts that escape from a prison truck after an accident. The two convicts run long and hard, even though they are manacled together.
There are racial overtones throughout the film, and that racial tension boils over multiple times.
All the convicts want, in addition to clearing out of the country all together, is to get their chains off and to get away from each other. Until then, however, they are forced to cooperate with each other long enough to get away.
In the meantime the local sheriff and a highway patrol officer butt heads a they struggle with each other - the sheriff in charge and the highway patrol officer chafing at his situation as the sheriff's subordinate.
Men running, men hunting, and dogs searching are all part of the mix.
This is good classic cinema. A solid 4-star offering.
Summary of The Defiant Ones
Nominated* for nine Academy Awards?(r), including Best Picture, The Defiant Ones broke new ground by delivering its message of racial tolerance through a fast-moving blend of action and suspense. It remains "a raw, powerful film that is as exciting as it is moving, real and literate"(Variety). Joker Jackson (Tony Curtis) and Noah Cullen (Sidney Poitier) are two convicts on the run. Escaping from a Southern work gang, the two men are bound together by an unbreakable iron chain and separated by an unbridled hatred towards each other. Relentlessly pursued by a posse and bloodhounds, they put aside their differences to survive. But when a lonely woman (Cara Williams) breaks their chain and deliberately sends Cullen to certain death, Jackson must decide what's more important: saving Cullen...or saving himself. *1958: Best Picture, Actor (Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier), Supporting Actor (Theodore Bikel), Supporting Actress (Cara Williams), Director,Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (won), Cinematography (won), Film EditingThis 1958 variation on Huck Finn's adventures with Jim finds a white convict (Tony Curtis) chained to a black convict (Sidney Poitier) as they both escape their captors. With each man literally stuck with the other, racial conflicts take a back seat to survival. Directed by Stanley Kramer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), the film's obvious consciousness-raising is mitigated by a pair of raw performances from the stars, memorable appearances by Lon Chaney Jr. and Cara Williams, and Kramer's strong storytelling abilities. The award-winning script was cowritten by blacklisted writer-actor Nedrick Young. --Tom Keogh
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