Two escaped convicts -- one black (Poitier), one white (Curtis), and both shackled in the same pair of handcuffs -- battle the elements and each other as they travel Southern back roads eluding the ever-approaching posse. Though the device of binding two racial antagonists together for survival may be rather obvious, the performances make the result compelling. Watch for Chaney, Jr. along the way....
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Defiant Ones, The Oscar winning early Hollywood attempt to get to grips with racism. With Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis on mesmerising form
Shackles are the clanking symbol that binds racist John 'Joker' Jackson (Curtis) to black Noah Cullen (Poitier), both of them cons on the run. Jackson, who begins calling Cullen 'nigger' and 'boy', gets to see his companion as a suffering human being lik...
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To say that this was made way back in 1958, I don't think it has lost any of its tension.
It could have been a run of the mill racially motivated type film, but its not.
Two giants of the cinema, one black one white, made a film about escaped prisoners shackled together trying to beat the odds and 'The Man'.
The Man (the governor) thought it amusing to shackle a wh...
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