The Defiant Ones
"One of the great ones!"
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
Cast
Tony Curtis
John 'Joker' Jackson
Sidney Poitier
Noah Cullen
Theodore Bikel
Sheriff Max Muller
Charles McGraw
Capt. Frank Gibbons
Lon Chaney Jr.
Big Sam
King Donovan
Solly
Claude Akins
Mack
Lawrence Dobkin
Editor
Whit Bissell
Lou Gans
Carl Switzer
Angus
Kevin Coughlin
Billy
Cara Williams
Billy's mother
Ned Glass
Doctor
Nedrick Young
Prison Guard
Crew
Ernest Gold
Original Music Composer
Stanley Kramer
Director
Frederic Knudtson
Editor
Stanley Kramer
Producer
Sam Leavitt
Director of Photography
Clem Beauchamp
Production Manager
Joseph Kish
Set Decoration
Don L. Cash
Makeup Artist
Harold Jacob Smith
Writer
Rudolph Sternad
Production Design
Alex Weldon
Special Effects
Nedrick Young
Writer
Fernando Carrere
Art Direction
Jean L. Speak
Sound Engineer
Walter Elliott
Sound Effects
Joe King
Costume Supervisor
John Franco
Script Supervisor
James Almond
Gaffer
Art Cole
Property Master
Albert Myers
Camera Operator
Paul Helmick
Assistant Director