History Film / TheDefiantOnes

* DownerEnding: Joker and Noah are captured.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Billy's mother casually admits that the swamp she sent Noah into is a death trap--she is afraid that he will rat them out. Joker has the opportunity to run away with her, escaping in her car to certain freedom. Instead, he abandons her and goes into the swamp to save Noah.

TropeCodifier for the ChainedHeat genre. Received eight UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations--Poitier's Best Actor nomination was the first ever given to a black actor. Has been remade many times, including with a GenderFlip as ExploitationFilm ''Film/BlackMamaWhiteMama''.

* SaltAndPepper: Probably the TropeCodifier for this trope as well, as white Joker and black Noah are stuck with each other, eventually forming a mutual respect.

* CuffsOffRubWrists: Maybe justified when it's shackles instead of cuffs, and when your wrist has gotten infected from the scraping.

As Noah and Joker travel cross-country on foot, their mutual racial hostility slowly thaws into shared respect and even something like friendship. Meanwhile, Sheriff Max Muller (Theodore Bikel) leads a posse in pursuit of the fugitives.

Curtis and Poitier are John "Joker" Williams and Noah Cullen, two convicts who are among a group of prisoners being transferred by truck somewhere in the DeepSouth. When the truck crashes, Noah and Joker make their escape, which is made more difficult by the fact that they're chained to each other. As Noah and Joker travel cross-country on foot, their mutual racial hostility slowly thaws into shared respect and even something like friendship. Meanwhile, Sheriff Max Muller (Theodore Bikel) leads a posse in pursuit of the fugitives.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Billy's mom casually admits that the swamp she sent Noah into is a death trap--she is afraid that he will rat them out. Joker has the opportunity to run away with Billy's mother, escaping in her car to certain freedom. Instead, he abandons her and goes into the swamp to save Noah.

* CreatorCameo: Co-screenwriters Nedrick Young and Harold Smith appeared as the drivers of the prison van in the opening scene. Their names pop up in the credits right under their faces in the scene. This was because Young was blacklisted and writing under a pseudonym, and Stanley Kramer wanted him properly credited. (The blacklist lasted until Dalton Trumbo was credited under his own name for ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' in 1960.)

Curtis and Poitier are John "Joker" Williams and Noah Cullen, two convicts who are among a group of prisoners being transferred by truck somewhere in the DeepSouth. When the truck crashes, Noah and Joker make their escape, which is made more difficult by the fact that they're chained to each other. As Noah and Joker travel cross-country on foot, their mutual racial hostility slowly thaws into something like friendship. Meanwhile, Sheriff Max Muller (Theodore Bikel) leads a posse in pursuit of the fugitives.

Curtis and Poitier are John "Joker" Williams and Noah Cullen, two convicts who are among a group of prisoners being transferred by truck somewhere in the DeepSouth. When the truck crashes, Noah and Joker make their escape, which is made more difficult by the fact that they're chained to each other. Noah and Joker go cross-country together while Sheriff Max Muller (Theodore Bikel) leads a posse in pursuit.

Curtis and Poitier are John "Joker" Williams and Noah Cullen, two convicts who are among a group of prisoners being transferred by truck. When the truck crashes, Noah and Joker make their escape, which is made more difficult by the fact that they're chained to each other. Noah and Joker go cross-country together while Sheriff Max Muller leads a posse in pursuit.

''The Defiant Ones'' is a 1958 film directed by Creator/StanleyKramer, starring Creator/TonyCurtis and Creator/SidneyPoitier.

* CreatorCameo: Co-screewriters Nedrick Young and Harold Smith appeared as the drivers of the prison van in the opening scene. Their names pop up in the credits right under their faces in the scene. This was because Young was blacklisted and writing under a pseudonym, and Stanley Kramer wanted him properly credited. (The blacklist lasted until Dalton Trumbo was credited under his own name for ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' in 1960.)

''The Defiant Ones'' is a 1958 film directed by Creator/StanleyKramer, starring Tony Curtis and Creator/SidneyPoitier.

!!Tropes:

* {{Book Ends}}: Noah singing the same spiritual at the beginning and the end.

* ChainedHeat: Not the first film to use this trope--it pops up in the Creator/AlfredHitchcock version of ''Film/{{The 39 Steps|1935}}''--but the one that made it famous.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Billy's mom casually admits that the swamp she sent Noah into is a death trap--she is afraid that he will rat them out. Joker has the opportunity to run away with Billy's mother, escaping in her car to certain freedom. Instead, he abandons her and goes into the swamp to save Noah.

''The Defiant Ones'' is a 1958 film directed by Creator/StanleyKramer, starring Tony Curtis and Creator/SidneyPoitier. Curtis and Poitier are John "Joker" Williams and Noah Cullen, two convicts who are among a group of prisoners being transferred by truck. When the truck crashes, Noah and Joker make their escape, which is made more difficult by the fact that they're chained to each other. Noah and Joker go cross-country together while Sheriff Max Muller leads a posse in pursuit.

* {{Blackface}}:In-Universe, it is done out of necessity, to conceal Joker's pale skin when he and Noah are trying to break into a general store.

* {{Blackface}}: Done out of necessity, to conceal Joker's pale skin when he and Noah are trying to break into a general store.

* ChainedHeat: Not the first film to use this trope--it pops up in the Creator/AlfredHitchcock version of ''Literature/TheThirtyNineSteps''--but the one that made it famous.

* BookEnds: Noah singing the same spiritual at the beginning and the end.

TropeCodifier for the ChainedHeat genre. Received eight AcademyAward nominations--Poitier's Best Actor nomination was the first ever given to a black actor. Has been remade many times, including with a GenderFlip as ExploitationFilm ''Film/BlackMamaWhiteMama''.

* ChainedHeat: Not the first film to use this trope--it pops up in the Creator/AlfredHitchock version of ''Literature/TheThirtyNineSteps''--but the one that made it famous.

* CuffsOffRubsWrists: Maybe justified when it's shackles instead of cuffs, and when your wrist has gotten infected from the scraping.