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The Defiant Ones

1958·96 min

The Defiant Ones

Directed by Stanley Kramer

CrimeDramaAdventureThriller

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

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John 'Joker' Jackson

Noah Cullen

Sheriff Max Muller

Capt. Frank Gibbons

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Harold Jacob Smith

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The Defiant Ones (1958) is about two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

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Stanley Kramer directed The Defiant Ones (1958).

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