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Writers (WGA):
Nedrick Young (story) (originally as Nathan E. Douglas)Harold Jacob Smith (screenplay)
Release Date:
27 September 1958 (USA) moreTagline:
One of the great ones! morePlot:
Two escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Won 2 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 19 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(9 articles)
Interview: Legendary Star Tony Curtis Likes it Hot in His Life, Career (From HollywoodChicago.com. 31 March 2009, 10:26 AM, PDT)
[DVD Review] Sidney Poitier Collection
(From JustPressPlay. 2 February 2009, 9:30 PM, PST)
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Two chained convicts tried to escape moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| 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) | |
| King Donovan | ... | Solly | |
| Claude Akins | ... | Mack | |
| Lawrence Dobkin | ... | Editor | |
| Whit Bissell | ... | Lou Gans | |
| Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer | ... | Angus (as Carl Switzer) | |
| Kevin Coughlin | ... | Billy | |
| Cara Williams | ... | Billy's mother |
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Parents Guide:
Add content advisory for parentsRuntime:
97 minCountry:
USALanguage:
EnglishColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)Certification:
Norway:16 | New Zealand:PG | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:U | USA:Approved (PCA #18985) | West Germany:12Fun Stuff
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All of the music in the film comes from radios. moreGoofs:
Continuity: Near the end of the film after Jackson falls in the mud trying to catch up to Cullen there is thick mud all the way up his front over his shoulders. In the next shot his right shoulder is suddenly unmuddied. moreQuotes:
Law officier: How come they chained a white man to a black?Sheriff Max Muller: The warden's got a sense of humor.
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I have seen this film several times and each time I am feeling that this is one of the best drama I've ever seen. There are new remakes of this film, but the original is the best. Acting of Sidney Poitier is without any doubt superb, while Tony Curtis did also his best. The director, Stanley Kramer, chose a very good and interesting plot, how two different persons can have better relationship and interests when they fight together for their lives. No matter if one is black and the other white, or no matter if one is atheist and the other Christian, at the end they will understand each other because their cause is only one and is the same, to become free.