Film · 1958 · Crime drama
The Defiant Ones
Directed by Stanley Kramer
1958
★ 1.9 editorial score
Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis are chained together at the wrist, which was the entire argument in 1958: two convicts break out of a crash in the South and cannot move separately.
“The story line is simple. Two convicts, a Negro and a white, escape into open country from an overturned prison van...These two men, who think they are so profoundly different, are in basic respects the same. Each is the victim of cruel oppressions, each has his hopes and dreams, and each, as a consequence of frustrations, has committed crime.”
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