A brooding and thought-provoking story dealing with the racial intolerance , set in 1950s America, in which two (one black , one white) escaped convicts : Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, chained each other become forced to collaborate in order to flee themselves from relentless pursuers in the rural South . Their societal conditioning to hate each other dissolves as they take on constant danger together. As a merciless posse is formed with avenger deputies, racist villagers , state patrolmen and local sheriff going after them . They could not like each other less. They could not need each other more. One of the great ones!
An interesting and provoking movie about racism revolving around two escaped prisoners from a chain gang , including engaging message about fellowship and collaboration between races. It contains intense drama , intrigue, noisy action, and enjoyable dialogue. Awesome acting from starring duo : Tony Curtis who gave him another chance to break away his beefcake image and Sidney Poitier who sings some emotive sings . They are two stunning protagonists showing versatility when eventually get rid of their chains, then their hostility has been changed into respect and fraternity. The support cast is frankly well with notorious secondaries and familiar faces, such as : Theodoro Bikel, Lon Chaney Jr , Charles McGraw, Claude Akins , Lawrence Dobkin, Whit Bissell , Cara Williams , King Donovan, Car ¨Alfalfa¨ Switzer , among others.
It contains a luminous and dazzling cinematography by cameraman Sam Leavitt . As well as adequate and exciting musical score by Ernest Gold. The motion picture was brilliant and competently produced and directed by Stanley Kramer. He was a notorious producer and director who made succesful films, such as Judgement at Nuremberg , Inherit the wind, Ship of fools, The Pride and the Passion and many others . Kramer developed a long career as a prestigious writer, producer, director making a lot of films . In The Defiant Ones (1958) Kramer makes an attractive and enthralling show thanks to the two greatest protagonists : Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis , earning a well deserved Academy Award for its script from Nathan Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith . As Kramer directed or produced films of all kinds of genres, as drama , Historical , Western , Science Fiction, such as : Not as a stranger , My Six Convicts , High Noon , The Sniper , A Child Is Waiting , The pride and the passion, On the beach , It's a mad, mad, mad world, Guess who is coming to dinner, The Caine Mutiny , The secret of Santa Vittoria, Oklahoma crude, The domino principle, The runner stumbles and several others . The pic will appeal to Poitier and Curtis fans . Rating 7/10. Better than average. Well worth watching.
An interesting and provoking movie about racism revolving around two escaped prisoners from a chain gang , including engaging message about fellowship and collaboration between races. It contains intense drama , intrigue, noisy action, and enjoyable dialogue. Awesome acting from starring duo : Tony Curtis who gave him another chance to break away his beefcake image and Sidney Poitier who sings some emotive sings . They are two stunning protagonists showing versatility when eventually get rid of their chains, then their hostility has been changed into respect and fraternity. The support cast is frankly well with notorious secondaries and familiar faces, such as : Theodoro Bikel, Lon Chaney Jr , Charles McGraw, Claude Akins , Lawrence Dobkin, Whit Bissell , Cara Williams , King Donovan, Car ¨Alfalfa¨ Switzer , among others.
It contains a luminous and dazzling cinematography by cameraman Sam Leavitt . As well as adequate and exciting musical score by Ernest Gold. The motion picture was brilliant and competently produced and directed by Stanley Kramer. He was a notorious producer and director who made succesful films, such as Judgement at Nuremberg , Inherit the wind, Ship of fools, The Pride and the Passion and many others . Kramer developed a long career as a prestigious writer, producer, director making a lot of films . In The Defiant Ones (1958) Kramer makes an attractive and enthralling show thanks to the two greatest protagonists : Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis , earning a well deserved Academy Award for its script from Nathan Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith . As Kramer directed or produced films of all kinds of genres, as drama , Historical , Western , Science Fiction, such as : Not as a stranger , My Six Convicts , High Noon , The Sniper , A Child Is Waiting , The pride and the passion, On the beach , It's a mad, mad, mad world, Guess who is coming to dinner, The Caine Mutiny , The secret of Santa Vittoria, Oklahoma crude, The domino principle, The runner stumbles and several others . The pic will appeal to Poitier and Curtis fans . Rating 7/10. Better than average. Well worth watching.