The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones is a 1958 film about two chained-together escaped convicts, one white and one black, who must learn to get along in order to elude capture. Directed by Stanley Kramer. Written by Harold Jacob Smith, from a story by Nedrick Young. They couldn't like each other less. They couldn't need each other more.  taglines Noah Cullen I ain't gettin' mad, Joker. I been mad all my natural life. Nigger! You call me that again, and I'll kill you! [to Joker] Go on, tell me all that big talk about Charlie Potatoes, when the chains off and nobody chasing you. Come on. You can't, can you? You can't because you're nothing. You're not even a man! You're a monkey on a stick. That cracker mob back there, they pull the string and you jump. [Joker punches him] [after covering Joker's face with mud so it doesn't show in the moonlight] There, now just the meanness shines through. John 'Joker' Jackson [about calling Cullen the N-word] Well, that's what you are, ain't it? It's like callin' a spade a spade...That name sure bugs you, don't it? Well, that's the way it is, and you're stuck with it, 'cos I didn't make any rules. Ya'll can't lynch me! I'm a white man! Sheriff Max Muller [why they don't have to worry about finding the two convicts]' They'll probably kill each other before they go five miles. Dialogue Noah Cullen: [after almost drowning] I almost... swallowed half that river. Thanks. John 'Joker' Jackson: What for? Noah Cullen: For pullin' me out. John 'Joker' Jackson: Man, I didn't pull you out. I kept you from pullin' me in. Law officer: How come they chained a white man to a black? Sheriff Max Muller: The warden's got a sense of humor. Noah Cullen: Pineville's south, I don't go south. John 'Joker' Jackson: I used to know a girl in Pineville, if she's still there we get this broke now come on. Noah Cullen: And then what? I'm a strange colored man in a white south town, how long you think before they pick me up? John 'Joker' Jackson: Get off my back I ain't married to you. Now what do I care? Come on! Noah Cullen: You married to me alright Joker. Now here's the ring [holds up the chains] but I ain't goin' south on no honeymoon now! John 'Joker' Jackson: Cullen, I can't make it. Noah Cullen: [Holding out his arm as if they are still chained together]'' Come on, man, you draggin' the chain. Taglines They couldn't like each other less. They couldn't need each other more. One of the great ones! Cast Sidney Poitier - Noah Cullen Tony Curtis - John "Joker" Jackson Theodore Bikel - Sheriff Max Muller Charles McGraw - Captain Frank Gibbons Lon Chaney Jr. - Sam "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 External links 0051525 The Defiant Ones Category:1958 American films Category:American crime drama films Category:Buddy films Category:Films about racism Category:Films directed by Stanley Kramer Category:American crime thriller films Category:Films whose writers won Best Original Screenplay Academy Award Category:1958 English-language films Category:American chase films