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p169 DEFIANT ONES 8 movie lobby cards '58 Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier

Date Sold 6/6/2006
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8 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (measure 11" x 14") (Learn More)

The Defiant Ones, the 1958 Stanley Kramer (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) prison escape race relations crime thriller ("One of the great ones!"; "In the stinking swamp they were animals ...in the woman's lonely cabin they were men ...in a powerful motion picture they are."; "He watched them -- and listened for the dogs!"'; "'Call me that name again, white man, and I'll kill you!'"; "A SHOCKER! Two chained fugitives - desperately trying to escape from the law - and each other!"; "Written by Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Tony Curtis (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Sidney Poitier (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Theodore Bikel (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Charles McGraw, Lon Chaney Jr., King Donovan, Kevin Coughlin, and Cara Williams (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film). Note that Tony Curtis, in his autobiography, said that the producers of the movie said that he was "too good looking" to portray the "lowlife bigot" in the movie. So Curtis had the studio department create a false nose for him that would "make him look uglier"! Also, note that there is conflicting information about Robert Mitchum being first offered this role and turning it down. Some have said that it was due to prejudice on his part, but it seems far more likely that it was because he was acquainted with the prison system in the south at this time, and he knew that they would never chain a white man and a black man together, so he felt the movie's key plot twist was ludicrous, which is a shame, because he would have surely been wonderful in this part!
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Important Added Info: Note that the title card has paper clip stains in the center of the top border and is creased 1" below the top edge of the card, but the seven scene cards are in excellent condition!

Condition: fine.
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