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category: vintage
date: '2024-02-07'
description: white and black convicts escaping while chained together—kramer filming curtis and poitier's hatred dissolving mile by mile, chain forcing them to cooperate while 1950s south hunts them both, the shackle between them becoming the thing that might save them from what the world insists they should be.
director: Stanley Kramer
id: the-defiant-ones
modified: 2026-06-05 15:08:14 GMT-04:00
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rating: 7.5
status: recurring
studio: united artists
tags:
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title: The Defiant Ones
year: 1958
created: '2024-02-07'
published: '2024-02-07'
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