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...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's film about a Southern chain-gang escape, with drama and photography that are black and white, and characterizations that are expertly blended shades of grey; with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 22, 1958 | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's film about a Southern chain-gang escape, with drama and photography that are black and white, and characterizations that are expertly blended shades of grey; with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 15, 1958 | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's film about a Southern chain-gang escape, with drama and photography that are black and white, and characterizations that are expertly blended shades of grey; with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 8, 1958 | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's film about a Southern chain-gang escape, with drama and photography that are black and white, and characterizations that are expertly blended shades of grey; with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 1, 1958 | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...helps them smash the chain, spends the night with Joker Jackson, and persuades him to flee with her while Cullen heads overland to hop a northbound freight. In a scene that would be the worst sort of corn if the script faltered, Curtis learns that the woman has directed Poitier through a quicksand bog. Their painfully borne chain, even broken, has bound them irrevocably together, and Curtis plunges after him to sure capture by the law. Behind the coupled heroes, the moviemakers have sketched a mud-grimed tableau of the blood-happy townsmen giving chase and a soul-weary sheriff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 25, 1958 | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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