# The Defiant Ones (1958)

The Defiant Ones is a 1958 American drama film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, and stars Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier as two escaped prisoners, The film was adapted by Harold Jacob Smith from the story by Nedrick Young, originally credited as Nathan E. Douglas. It follows two escaped prisoners, Noah Cullen, an African American man, and John "Joker" Jackson, a white man, who are shackled together and must cooperate to survive while being pursued by a posse. As they navigate through difficult terrain and face various challenges, their initial animosity transforms into mutual respect and friendship.

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1958
- By: Stanley Kramer
- Genres: Drama
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/the.-defiant.-ones.-1958)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Made from: the story by Nedrick Young its record names, Nedrick Young's story: not shown to be free in the United States, as when it was first published is not known, and its authors did not all die more than 95 years ago.
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: what its record states (its uploader's public-domain mark, or a licence not shown to be its rights holder's) leaves its US term to decide, and it is dated 1958; under US law a work of that year is free only on facts the site does not hold for it (its US renewal records, or its own country's term on 1 January 1996 for a work published abroad), and otherwise its US term runs to the end of 2053. Unclear is not offered.