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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The defiant ones / Lomitas Productions ; MGM ; produced and directed by Stanley Kramer ; written by Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Two convicts escaping from a Southern work gang discover that they are bound together by an unbreakable iron chain and separated by a hatred for each other. But in order to elude capture they must overcome their hostility.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Escapes -- Southern States -- Drama.

Fugitives from justice -- Drama.

Racism -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Other Author:

Kramer, Stanley.

Young, Nedrick.

Smith, Harold Jacob, 1912-1970.

Curtis, Tony, 1925-2010.

Poitier, Sidney.

Bikel, Theodore.

McGraw, Charles, 1914-1980.

Chaney, Lon, Jr., 1906-1973.

Donovan, King.

Akins, Claude, 1918-1994.

Dobkin, Lawrence.

Bissell, Whit, 1909-1996.

Williams, Cara, 1925-2021

Leavitt, Samuel, 1904-1984.

Knudtson, Frederic, 1906-1964.

Gold, Ernest, 1921-1999.

King, Joe, 1908-2002.

Sternad, Rudolph, 1906-1963.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

United Artists Corporation.

MGM Home Entertainment Inc.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1958.

Includes original theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, Sam Leavitt ; editor, Frederic Knudtson ; music, Ernest Gold ; costume designer, Joe King ; production designer, Rudolph Sternad.

Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Charles McGraw, Lon Chaney, King Donovan, Claude Akins, Lawrence Dobkin, Whit Bissell, Carl Switzer, Kevin Coughlin, Cara Williams.

DVD.

Dialogue in English with optional French or Spanish soundtrack, and with optional French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Web Site:

Web Link Connect to IMDb information for this film

Credits from Internet Movie Database Web Link

ISBN:

0792863801

9780792863809

0792851609

9780792851608

0792851609

9780792851608

Publisher Number:

1002738

Other Number:

426057661

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

780416

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Defiant