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...Defiant Ones. Two escaped convicts (Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier) loathe each other, but since they are bound together at the wrist by a chain, they eventually learn a brutal, moving lesson about brotherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...Defiant Ones. Two escaped convicts (Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier) loathe each other, but since they are bound together at the wrist by a chain, they eventually learn a brutal, moving lesson about brotherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Oct. 27, 1958 | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

Stengel hinted he might not start Bauer, who he said had a slight wrist injury. However, it was not so much the injury as an attempt to find a place for Elston Howard, his catcher-outfielder...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Spahn and Ford To Pitch Opener Of World Series | 10/1/1958 | See Source »

...middle-aged hero (Robert Shafer) is that most pitiable of men, a Washington Senators fan. An offhand mention that he would sell his soul for a long-ball hitter brings on Ray Walston, a crewcut, button-down Screwtape always willing to oblige. With a flick of the wrist, Walston turns paunchy Rooter Shafer into spring-legged, muscular Tab Hunter. Despite the fact that Actor Hunter holds a bat as if it were a canoe paddle, he hits .524 and steals 976 bases as the Senators roar in pursuit of the Yankees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 29, 1958 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

Poitier), chained together at the wrist, are the only two to escape when a prison truck cracks up in a ditch. Linked but loathing, they stumble through swampland, nearly drown fording a river, nearly wrench their arms from their sockets clawing out of a deep clay pit. When they pause, it is not to rest but to spit forth their hatred. Telling Poitier why he is a "nigger," Curtis says: "It's like callin' a spade a spade. I'm a hunky. I don't try to argue out of it." Replies Actor Poitier: "You ever...

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

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