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Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stanley Kramer
Nedrick Young
Harold Jacob Smith
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Lon Chaney Jr.
Whit Bissell
Tony Curtis
Sidney Poitier
Charles McGraw
Lawrence Dobkin
Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer
Claude Akins
King Donovan
Theodore Bikel
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Essential Collection - 1958
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The Definitive Director: Stanley Kramer
Best Picture Nominees - 1958
Josh the cat's - 12th BAFTA Bonanza (1959)

Defiant Ones, The

(1958)
33 reviews
Film rated 4.3 / 5  (Chick rating: 5 / 5)  (Guy rating: 4.2 / 5)
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Poitier wins a Tony.
randall 
  Vote (13)   
Kramer promotes racial harmony.
MM0rkeleb 
  Vote (13)   
Curtis's, Poitier's chain reaction.
Yukon 
  Vote (11)   
Duo gives restrained performance.
clay 
  Vote (8)   
Chains change racist attitudes.
Josh the cat 
  Vote (7)   
Actually, the defiant two.
Yukon 
  Vote (7)   
Chains change coloured condition.
Beanmimo 
  Vote (6)   
Convicts race to escape.
demonic 
  Vote (6)   
DEFInitive ANtagonist TONy EScapes.
Larry 
  Vote (5)   
Escaped cons promote integration.
lemmycaution 
  Vote (2)   
Opposite colors run together.
noncentz 
  Vote (2)   
Chained men change minds.
Whippersnapper. 
  Vote (2)   
"Black and white" classic.
WylieR 
  Vote (2)   
Bound escapees bond.
MguyXXV 
  Vote (2)   
Escaped convicts, ethnics' links.
Catuli 
  Vote (1)   
Inter-racial male bondage escape.
Josh the cat 
  Vote (1)   
Shackles necessitate racial accord.
lemmycaution 
  Vote (1)   
Kramer is color-bind.
Larry 
  Vote (1)   
Ebony, Ivory get Chane(y)ed.
ChocolateLady 
  Vote (1)   
Convicts, chains, color storyline.
kolo 
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Interracial race to freedom.
kolo 
  Vote    
Chaney = chain gang alumnus.
kolo 
  Vote    
Curtis = real Joker.
kolo 
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Kramer questions racial mores.
kolo 
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Tony plows farmer's furrow.
kolo 
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Tony misses his train.
kolo 
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Curtis: the great racist.
Larry 
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Running convicts learn respect.
Josh the cat 
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Racial differences chained together.
AC 
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Tony, Sidney, run together.
Yonbear 
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Convicts bondage inspires bonding.
Catuli 
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Defiant racists work together.
palefox 
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Multiracial chain-gang escapees integrate.
Rovark 
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