The Defiant Ones

1958 · directed by Stanley Kramer

Rating: 76/100
Hit: no

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

The Defiant Ones (1958), directed by Stanley Kramer, rates 76/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

Tony Curtis
Sidney Poitier
Theodore Bikel
Charles McGraw
Lon Chaney Jr.
King Donovan
Claude Akins
Lawrence Dobkin
Whit Bissell
Carl Switzer

Crew

Sam Leavitt — Director of Photography
Frederic Knudtson — Editor
Ernest Gold — Original Music Composer
Harold Jacob Smith — Writer
Nedrick Young — Writer

More from Stanley Kramer

Inherit the Wind (1960) — 81/100 · hit
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) — 79/100
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) — 73/100
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1970) — 73/100
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) — 69/100
On the Beach (1959) — 68/100

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