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Defiant Ones (1958)
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304196908
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6304196903
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: January 05, 1999
Running Time: 97 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: September 27, 1958
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Editorial Review:
This 1958 variation on Huck Finn's adventures with Jim finds a white convict (Tony Curtis) chained to a black convict (Sidney Poitier) as they both escape their captors. With each man literally stuck with the other, racial conflicts take a back seat to survival. Directed by Stanley Kramer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), the film's obvious consciousness-raising is mitigated by a pair of raw performances from the stars, memorable appearances by Lon Chaney Jr. and Cara Williams, and Kramer's strong storytelling abilities. The award-winning script was cowritten by blacklisted writer-actor Nedrick Young. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - The Defiant Ones--no wonder it was nominated for all those Oscars.
Although minimal by today's Hollywood standards, this drama stimulates discussion on many levels. Some of it is obviously dated, but it is worthwhile seeing from the standpoint of cinematic storytelling, basic cinematic technique, and basic dramatic performances without excessive explosions, graphic sex or verbal profanity. Highly recommended for the movie enthusiasist.
Rating:  - The Defiant Ones
ESSENTIAL MOVIE!!! Here's another great "prison" movie from Hollywood. This one stars Tony Curtis & Sidney Poitier. They are chained together when they make their escape. It's not as simple as it sounds; the movie takes place at an unspecified location in the southern U.S. in the late fifties. This was a very unususl situation, the chaining of white & black together in that period. Of course, the Tony Curtis character is a bigot which makes the escape & survival of the two convicts a ... Read More
Rating: - The Defiant Ones
All of Sidney's early movies are great. Tony Curtis did a marvels job, too. Recommended for everyone.
Rating: - Great film, for its time, and present/future days...
I first saw this film as a child, a few times later as a teen and as an adult (whatever "an adult" is), and always remembered it as one of the best movies I'd ever seen. Having recently caught it yet again, uncut, unedited on cable, here in my early 50's, I have to say this remains one of my all time favorite films. And its message of racial tolerance, understanding, and cooperation, remains as true today as it was when it was first released, back in the "Jim Crow LAW" days. Years before the civil ... Read More
Rating: - The Defiant Ones
Another of maverick producer/director Stanley Kramer's consciousness-raising social films, this tale proved a potent metaphor for race relations in 1958. Virtually simultaneous with the rise of the civil-rights movement, this progressive adventure eloquently presented the case for racial harmony in the story of a gutsy prison-break film. Poitier--who at age 30 was set to go where no black actor had gone before--more than holds his own with Curtis, then a big star, who plays the despicable "Joker" to perfection.
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