4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Feb 5, 2022
I can’t have made this up myself, but The Defiant Ones is a testament to the pithy axiom that proximity breeds empathy. Stanley Kramer has very clear intent when he builds the premise of his story out of a white and black prisoner, in the era of Jim Crow, who are chained together for the majo read more
The Defiant Ones
Directed by Stanley Kramer
Written by Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith
1958/USA
Curtleigh Productions/Stanley Kramer Productions
Repeat viewing/My DVD collection
#345 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Sheriff Max Muller: The warden’s got a sense of humor. Chain read more
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 24, 2014
Starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier with director Stanley Kramer, the film opens in the pouring rain with a truck full of convicts. It goes off road and no one is hurt except two men escape. A Sheriff an state policemen begin tracking them on foot. However, this pair is unique since one is the read more
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 24, 2014
Starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier with director Stanley Kramer, the film opens in the pouring rain with a truck full of convicts. It goes off road and no one is hurt except two men escape. A Sheriff an state policemen begin tracking them on foot. However, this pair is unique since one is the read more
In 1958, the Civil Rights movement was gaining strength and The Defiant Ones became more fuel for the fire. Directed by the great Stanley Kramer, the film tells the story of two escaped prisoners chained together and trying to outrun the authorities in the south, one man is black, the other white. read more
