The Defiant Ones (1958)

Chasing the Train

Cullen (Sidney Poitier) and Joker (Tony Curtis) try to hop a train with the law hot on their heels.

Directed by Stanley Kramer.

© MGM 2013

Released in 1958 by MGM.

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