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The Defiant Ones (1958): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

The Defiant Ones is a 1958 crime, drama, thriller film directed by Stanley Kramer. It scores 7.5 on IMDb, 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, 69 on Metacritic, 7.2 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 6 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 14 of 93 films from 1958 in our catalog and number 226 of 1,701 thriller films.

Billed cast: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Charles McGraw, Lon Chaney Jr., King Donovan.

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