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The Defiant Ones

Year:
Duration:
96 min (Turner library print) (copyright length)
Genres:
Crime | Drama | Thriller
IMDB rate:
7.7
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 19 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1958-09-27
Filming Locations: Between Piru & Fillmore, Southern Pacific Railroad, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Tony Curtis
John 'Joker' Jackson
Sidney Poitier
Noah Cullen
Theodore Bikel
Sheriff Max Muller
Charles McGraw
Capt. Frank Gibbons
Lon Chaney Jr.
Big Sam
Claude Akins
Mack
Lawrence Dobkin
Editor
Whit Bissell
Lou Gans
Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer
Angus (as Carl Switzer)
Kevin Coughlin
Billy
Cara Williams
Billy's Mother
James Dime
Townsman (uncredited)
Clem Fuller
Search Party Member (uncredited)
Ned Glass
Doctor (uncredited)
Mickey Golden
Search Party Member (uncredited)
Herman Hack
Search Party Member (uncredited)
Signe Hack
Townswoman (uncredited)
Bill Lovett
Townsman (uncredited)
Boyd 'Red' Morgan
Townsman (uncredited)
Harold Jacob Smith
Prison Truck Driver (uncredited)
Nedrick Young
Prison Guard in Truck (uncredited)
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Trivia
Tony Curtis insisted that Sidney Poitier received top billing.
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Elvis Presley wanted the role of Joker Jackson, hoping to co-star with Sammy Davis Jr. (who had been first choice for the role of Noah Cullen) but was persuaded by his manager not to do the film.
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The young man with the transistor radio is played by Our Gang graduate Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer; this was Switzer's final screen appearance before his untimely death in a shooting incident.
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Goofs
Near the end of the film after Jackson falls in the mud trying to catch up to Cullen there is thick mud all the way up his front over his shoulders. In the next shot his right shoulder is suddenly unmuddied.
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When jumping into the mud pit, Tony Curtis' stunt double has a noticeable bald spot.
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As John and Noah are swept downriver together, a person is seen on the shore moving into the top of frame, watching the two men.
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Quotes
John 'Joker' Jackson: Ya'll can't lynch me! I'm a white man!
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Noah Cullen: [to John] Go on, tell me all that big talk about Charlie Potatoes, when the chains off and nobody chasing you. Come on. You can't, can you? You can't because you're nothing. You're not even a man! You're a monkey on a stick. That cracker mob back there, they pull the string and you jump.
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Law officier: How come they chained a white man to a black?
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Photos from cast
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