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The Defiant Ones (1958)

★ 7.1 · 329 ratings on TMDB

One of the great ones!

The Defiant Ones poster★ 7.1

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

DirectorStanley Kramer
CastCarl Switzer, Charles McGraw, Claude Akins, King Donovan, Lawrence Dobkin, Lon Chaney Jr.
GenresAdventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
The emergence reading

The Defiant Ones keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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