The Defiant Ones
1958 · TMDB 7.1
Directed by Stanley Kramer
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
Why it matters
Two escaped convicts, one black and one white, chained together, must cooperate to survive, with a script by Nedrick Young (under the name Nathan E. Douglas).
From The Writer's Fight
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Released
- 1958-08-14
- Studio
- Curtleigh Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.1
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