The Defiant Ones

Year: 1986

Runtime: 100 mins

Language: English

Director: David Lowell Rich

Drama

Monroe and ‘Joker’ Johnson are two prisoners who despise each other. But after their prison transport crashes, they manage to escape chained to each other.

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