The story
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Tony CurtisJohn 'Joker' Jackson
Sidney PoitierNoah Cullen
Theodore BikelSheriff Max Muller
Charles McGrawCapt. Frank Gibbons
Lon Chaney Jr.Big Sam
King DonovanSolly
Claude AkinsMack
Lawrence DobkinEditor
Whit BissellLou Gans
Carl SwitzerAngus
Kevin CoughlinBilly
Cara WilliamsBilly's motherExplore the crew
- Original Music Composer
- Ernest Gold
- Director
- Stanley Kramer
- Editor
- Frederic Knudtson
- Producer
- Stanley Kramer
- Director of Photography
- Sam Leavitt
- Writer
- Harold Jacob Smith
- Writer
- Nedrick Young