The Defiant Ones (1958) Tony Curtis Eng

Convicts Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier escape from a chain gang. Curtis' character, John "Joker" Jackson, hates blacks, while Poitier's character, Noah Cullen, hates whites. However, the men are manacled together, forced to rely on each other to survive. Captured at one point by a lynch-happy mob, the convicts are rescued by Big Sam (Lon Chaney Jr.), himself a former convict. The men are later sheltered by a lonely, love-hungry widow played by Cara Williams, who offers to turn in Cullen if Joker will stay with her. By the time the two men are within hailing distance of a train that might take them to freedom, they have become friends. The script for The Defiant Ones is credited to Harold Jacob Smith and Nathan E. Douglas. The latter was really Nedrick Young, a blacklisted writer, whom producer Stanley Kramer hired knowing full well that Young was using an alias (when "Douglas"' credit appears onscreen, it is superimposed over a close-up of a truck driver -- played by Nedrick Young). Both the script and the photography by Sam Leavitt won Academy Awards. If you look closely, you'll notice that the actor playing Angus is former Little Rascal Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, making his last screen appearance. The Defiant Ones was remade for TV in 1986, with Robert Urich and Carl Weathers in the leads. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051525/ Subtitles: http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/search/imdbid-51525/sublanguageid-all Awards: Won 2 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 19 nominations Director: Stanley Kramer Tony Curtis ... John 'Joker' Jackson Sidney Poitier ... Noah Cullen Theodore Bikel ... Sheriff Max Muller Charles McGraw ... Capt. Frank Gibbons Lon Chaney Jr. ... Big Sam (as Lon Chaney) [Movie] Valid : Yes [AVI] Duration : 01:32:15 Movie complete : Yes [Video] Resolution : 640x480 4:3 Codec : DivX 5 FPS : 29,97 BitRate : 1213 Kbps Quality Factor : 0,13 b/px [Audio] Codec : MPEG 1 or 2 Audio Layer 3 (MP3) Number of channels : 2 Sample Rate : 44100 Hz BitRate : 128 Kbps Please seed at least as much as you D/L. ======================================= Thanks John

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wronged (2010-03-25)

Thank you very much. been looking for this for a long time. perhaps you can get 'the world of suzie wong'. would appreciate it very much.

wronged (2010-03-25)

wronged:
thank you very much. been looking for this for a long time. please try to get 'the world of suzie wong'. thanks again.

davenez (2010-09-30)

rip to curtis
thanks for this

bychance (2010-10-07)

Very fast download, excellent audio and video.
Thanks a lot johnefp and seeders.

Zonderling (2014-03-03)

Not a good rip, at least visually. Lots of compression artifacts (blocking) and the picture doesn't fill the screen at top and bottom. Gets no more than a 6 from me. Uploader's effort is still appreciated, of course.

fionafiddlesticks (2014-03-31)

I was reminded of this wonderful movie by something I read today, and wanted to see it again. Of course I came straight to TPB, and here it is!
The only thing I do not like about this move is the tile. I first saw it in Norway, where it was called simply "Lenken", which means "The Chain" in Norwegian. That was a much better title, I think.