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The Defiant Ones
Original title
The Defiant Ones
director
Stanley Kramer
year
1958
Cast
Tony Curtis,Sidney Poitier,Theodore Bikel,Cara Williams,Charles McGraw,Lon Chaney Jr.,King Donovan,Claude Akins,Lawrence Dobkin,Whit Bissell
country
US
genre
drama
,
action
,
adventure
,
thriller
,
crime
,
documentary
plot
Two prisoners, one black and one white, must work together as they make a desperate bid for freedom while being manacled to each other after they escape from a chain gang in the Deep South. An Oscar winner for the screenplay, and stars Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis were both nominated for Best Actor.