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
Frederic Knudtson
Editor
Stanley Kramer
Director
Stanley Kramer
Producer
Sam Leavitt
Director of Photography
Harold Jacob Smith
Writer
Clem Beauchamp
Production Manager
Nedrick Young
Writer
Joseph Kish
Set Decoration
Rudolph Sternad
Production Design
Fernando Carrere
Art Direction
Alex Weldon
Special Effects
Don L. Cash
Makeup Artist
James Almond
Gaffer
Joe King
Costume Supervisor
John Franco
Script Supervisor
Walter Elliott
Sound Effects
Paul Helmick
Assistant Director
Jean L. Speak
Sound Engineer
Art Cole
Property Master
Albert Myers
Camera Operator