Set in the rural South, John "Joker" Jackson and Noah Cullen, men of different color, are convicts on a chain gang who escape after the truck they are riding in crashes. Chained together at the wrists, they must constantly outwit and outrun the armed posse and bloodhounds in hot pursuit. Their biggest obstacle, however, is their mutual hatred and distrust for each other. When the chains are finally broken, they discover that the artificial barriers separating them have also vanished.
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ISBN:0792851609 (v.r.)
Physical Description:1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher:Santa Monica, CA :MGM Home Entertainment,c2001.
General Note:
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1958.
Special features: theatrical trailer.
Widescreen format.
Participant or Performer Note:
Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Charles McGraw, Long Chaney, King Donovan, Kevin Coughlin, Cara Williams.
Target Audience Note:
CHV rating: 14A.
Awards Note:
Winner of two Academy Awards including Best B&W Cinematography, 1958.