Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts on a chain gang who hate each other. After a truck prison accident, they flee and are pursued by the police. While they're chained, the two are dependent on one another. When they eventually get rid of their chains, their hostility has been changed into fellowship and respect.
Defiant Ones, The Oscar winning early Hollywood attempt to get to grips with racism. With Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis on mesmerising form
Shackles are the clanking symbol that binds racist John 'Joker' Jackson (Curtis) to black Noah Cullen (Poitier), both of them cons on the run. Jackson, who begins calling Cullen 'nigger' and 'boy', gets to see his companion as a suffering human being like himself as they try to survive together.
Although an advance on Hollywood's usual treatment of racial themes, the script is too message-laden and the direction (by do-gooder Kramer) too single-minded and naively optimistic to really work. Yet the performances are excellent, and so is Leavi...
Good 'un
To say that this was made way back in 1958, I don't think it has lost any of its tension.
It could have been a run of the mill racially motivated type film, but its not.
Two giants of the cinema, one black one white, made a film about escaped prisoners shackled together trying to beat the odds and 'The Man'.
The Man (the governor) thought it amusing to shackle a white man and a black man together, something of a no no in those days.
Even though its slightly cliched in places, (even has a love scene - but not between those two!) and don't care for each other (on the surface) it has an ending that you are still not sure of how its going to turn out, ...
Defiant Ones, The
Schematic melodrama with a moral, impeccably done and with good performances.
Defiant Ones, The
Typical piece of liberal pleading from Kramer in which two escaped cons (Curtis and Poitier) go on the run manacled...
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