Remakes, Tributes and Parodies
The basis of The Defiant Ones was revisited several times in popular media:
- Warner Brothers parodied the film in Friz Freleng's 1961 cartoon D' Fightin' Ones, in which Sylvester the Cat escapes from captivity chained to a bulldog.
- In 1972, with gender reversal, as Black Mama, White Mama, starring Pam Grier and Margaret Markov.
- Another 1972 B-movie added a science fiction blaxploitation twist as The Thing with Two Heads, in which a racist white man (played by Ray Millard) has his head grafted onto the body of a living black man (played by Rosey Grier).
- For television in 1986, as The Defiant Ones, starring Robert Urich and Carl Weathers.
- Homage is paid to the film in the 1992 Quantum Leap episode "Unchained". Protagonist Sam Beckett lands in the body of a white Mississippi road gang worker chained to a wrongly convicted black man, and the two must escape together or be murdered by the corrupt warden.
- In 1996 action film Fled, the film stars Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin.
- suite life on deck episode "the defiant ones"
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