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The Defiant Ones(1958)
96 mins
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genre(s):
CRIME
DRAMA
THRILLER

Two convicts, a white racist and an angry black man, escape while chained to each other and must learn to get along in order to elude capture.

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namecharacter
Claude Akins Mack
Theodore Bikel Sheriff Max Muller
Whit Bissell Lou Gans
Lon Chaney Jr. Big Sam
Kevin Coughlin Billy
Tony Curtis John 'Joker' Jackson
Lawrence Dobkin Editor
King Donovan Solly
Charles McGraw Capt. Frank Gibbons
Sidney Poitier Noah Cullen
Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer Angus
Cara Williams Billy's Mother
name 
Ernest Gold composer
Stanley Kramer director, producer
Harold Jacob Smith screenplay
Nedrick Young screenplay
yearawardcategoryname
1958 Academy Award Best Screenplay Nedrick Young
1958 Academy Award Best Screenplay Harold Jacob Smith
1958 BAFTA Best Actor in a Leading Role Sidney Poitier
1958 Golden Globe Award Best Picture