"Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other."
Tony Curtis
as John 'Joker' Jackson
Sidney Poitier
as Noah Cullen
Theodore Bikel
as Sheriff Max Muller
Charles McGraw
as Capt. Frank Gibbons
Lon Chaney Jr.
as Big Sam
King Donovan
as Solly
Claude Akins
as Mack
Lawrence Dobkin
as Editor
Whit Bissell
as Lou Gans
Carl Switzer
as Angus
Kevin Coughlin
as Billy
Cara Williams
as Billy's mother
Ned Glass
as Doctor
Nedrick Young
as Prison Guard
Ernest Gold
Original Music Composer
Stanley Kramer
Director
Frederic Knudtson
Editor
Producer
Sam Leavitt
Director of Photography
Clem Beauchamp
Production Manager
Joseph Kish
Set Decoration
Don L. Cash
Makeup Artist
Harold Jacob Smith
Writer
Rudolph Sternad
Production Design
Alex Weldon
Special Effects
Fernando Carrere
Art Direction
Jean L. Speak
Sound Engineer
Walter Elliott
Sound Effects
Joe King
Costume Supervisor
John Franco
Script Supervisor
James Almond
Gaffer
Art Cole
Property Master
Albert Myers
Camera Operator
Paul Helmick
Assistant Director
