The Defiant Ones

Robert Urich and Carl Weathers as escaped convicts, divided by race but united by chains as they run from the law and from vigilantes across rugged terrain. Barry Corbin. Doyle: Ed Lauter. Pauline: Laurie O’Brien. Fred: Thalmus Rasulala. Lonny: Ritch Brinkley. David Lowell Rich directed., In this faithful remake of the Stanley Kramer classic buddy film, two members of a chain gang, one black and the other white, escape. They are chained together. At first they hate each other, but as time passes they begin to develop a grudging friendship., Two convicts (one black, one white) serving time on a chain gang are set free by an accident. Handcuffed together, they flee into treacherous swampland hunted by helicopter and bloodhound teams.