Review of The Defiant Ones (1958) by Marjorie Baumgarten for Austin Chronicle — 23 Jun 1972
Nearly a decade before the supper-table racial detente of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Kramer mined the subject matter of racial divisiveness in the groundbreaking The Defiant Ones, which paired Curtis and Poitier as hunky prison escapees unhappily bonded to each other by means of metal chains and the mutual need to survive.
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This review of The Defiant Ones (1958) was written by Marjorie Baumgarten and published by Austin Chronicle on 23 Jun 1972.
The Defiant Ones has generally received very positive reviews.
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