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The Defiant Ones

by

JOHN LAMBERT

THIВ the second part of story with tmetics significance at this time--a remarkably bold snower lo the question: What can break the barriers between while and black people? It is the story of the film “The Defiant Ones,” how slowing Jo Hongkong and the work of one of America's most skilled and outspoken lim craftsmen-Stanley Kramer. Two convlela on the run are divided by the colour of their skins, one white, one black, but united by the chain of a chain-gang. Now follow these two as they are followed....

6.30

. as

con-

"I used to park cars in a big fancy hotel. A fella would

P.M. Night was falling give me lids car and I'd ay, the two

"Thank you, sir! Here I Whe favour, but I had doing him a victs staggered into the to my "Thank you, sir, swamp. They were

"Evert when they didn't give

safe for a while from me a up I still had to say thank their hunters. They were you. That word get so it w

le sticking needles In me not safe from the soggy every time I said it. You know wasteland. Only

what I mean, boy?" the night birds and insects "Yeah!" said Cullen. "And needle sticking in me But made any noise.

right now.. Look, Joker, slithering silently don't call me 'boy," around were the alliga- tors.

Jackson become ttery with the elamny, murmurlug inace

I got a

Jackson laughed cynically. "What's eating you? Just be cause i called you a nigger? Well, that's what you are, ain't spade. Fin a

? It' ke calilok a spade

bohunk from the

of the marshes all round then. backwoods. You can call me a

their bobunk, I don't mind." above

As the freen

hends buzzed with small nolres

he said: "Listen. There must

be a million of tem, and not

Taunting

one of 'em understands what The Negro brooded fercely.

the other is say'. Bugs people. unybody."

Notudy

or "You ever hear tell of 'catch a understands bohutk by the toe, Joker. You ever hour tell of bohunk in the

They

week with Woodplic starving. So they caught a big

were

Jackson softened. "Don't frog and cooked it on dre, crowd me," he said, "I didn't Injer.

relaxed,

make up no names." Cullen one of

feeling more Jackson gave

his cigarettes.

"Thanks,” said the Negro, Jacitson Bared up. "Oh, why don't you cut it out? You keep sayin' thanks." I hate that word thonts." "

"No," sighed Cullch, "You breathe it in when you're born, and spit it out from then on."

"Don't mean nothing," said uny rules" the puzzled Negro.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1959.

"Even a weasel," murmured.

the Negro.

"You calling me a demanded Jackson.

weasel?"

"No. I'm calling you white man," the Negro replied softly.

Panic

EIGHT A.M. The convicts

the swamp clambered out of

on to a rough mud track. It was muddy. desolate rond, But the rain had stopped, a

few bleak rays of sunshine warned

their weary faces, and they felt

cheerful.

Suddenly panic came back.

Mistake

Monday

SHE WAS GOING TO FEED ONLY THE WHITE MAN-BUT HE SAID 'GET HIM

SOME'... AND HE MEANT THE NEGRO

You want blood, huh?" he said, taking gach, miner in turn.

"Well, go ahead. + chop 'em up. Go on." But not moved.

a man

to

we agreed, instead. return the men to the police in the morning.

The scars

FIVE A.M. As the convicts the stord bound to a post in camp store Cullen chanted the blues song he had sung on the night of their escape, The door of the store creaked open, And Dig Sam come in.

at Quickly be sloshed

the ropes that bound them. "If you he whispered loose. You let you

yourselves, under-

out

"She teach my kid the same get etught damn thing? I never could tet "nobody that woman to understand how broke I was feelin' inside....All of a stand." sudden there was nothing left But it was not undl they saw the old wears of a gool gang bracelet on his wrist that they fully understood.

th

A ramshackle cur, driven by binking lights of the lumber farmer Ezra Edgar, honked

them. They down the road. Jackson and camp beneath Cullen glanced at it for just watched, and waited for

the one moment. Then they jump- Hghts to go off one by one. ed blindly into a deep hole at

Meanwhile, in the darkness to say. the side of the road.

where nothing could divide When the last light went out them, they talked. The Negro they crept down to the camp, sighed deeply. "I worked 30, As a precaution Cullen dabbed acres by hand once," he said Jackson's face with black mud. wife helped me and sometimes

tingle of pride. "My "We sure look alike," he said, into the camp They broke even my little kid. D

. He was

TEN A.M. The convicts Just Ove

old when I store, where there was food. It were exhausted. yours

They had run broke the and crawled across country for left. He don't even remem- was the chain that

lock. But it was their human five hours, Somehow their fight ber me now."

panto and the noise they nude brought no release. It only reem- that awoke the camp.

As they sank into the with a treacherous mud they realized their mistake. The hole was

cloypit.

The clay, like treacle in the wet, summer heat, melted as togother, but separately, they charged its walls.

Again and again they fell back into its soft, deathly womb. They blazed at each other with anger and feat.

Then they learned their Arst lesson in comradeship. "Lerame try 11 lemme try it on your

Boulders," said Jackson. Ironically, it was the that saved them.

The lights

chain

Jackson became quletly

As Jackson clambered on to taunting. "Well, that's the way the shoulders of the Negro the it is," he purred, "and you're chain became embedded in the

didn't make mud. Slowly, slowly, stuck with 1 I

Jackson groped his way over li to the "No-but

you live by 'cr,"

top.

the Then, with

cruel gald Cullen.

bracelet of the elain supporting Jackson spat. "Don't mga Jackson shrugged. "Every his wrist he dragged the Negro nothing, eh? You try mukin' a body lives by them. Every upwards. livin's with that word, ..you budy's stuck with what he is... TEN P.M. Jockson and find out.

even them swamp anhuals.” Cullen peered cautiously at the

'Be nice'

Protected by the dark,

still night. Incitson revealed the soul inside his bitter body.

"Me, I'm a taker," he said, I wound up in gnol because I didn't know how to be a big

enough taker, I was just a stealer...you gotta be a big enough crook so you can get, Away with anything." Sourly, but sadly, he added: "I'm just telling you the facts of life."

The Negro shook his head, "I don't want to hear it," he sild "I been listening to that stuff alt my life. From my wife, nice,

'Be

At a farm

ed endless.

Blindly, they lashed out at They quarrelled, Then they these new hunters. What was fought savagely, with the chain worse, they injured a

Thex man. clanking cich blow, And the camp men, who lived stopped only when they looked their own laws in this blank, up and saw a gun barrel point- muddy, wilderness, decided to ing at them. But the gun bearer was only a boy. It was have a lynching.

casy to disarm him. Easy, too, to gain his confidence...

Pleading

with They forgot their fury ONE AM. The rope was each other when the boy said: the hanging over the high, wooden "Just Ma and me work beam in the camp store. The farm. There's nobody else." He women were sent home to their took them home with him. beds. But the men, thinking only of the man who had been in jured, wanted only revenge.

2.30 A.M. The two convicts pleaded for their lives with the averaging miners.

She stood alone in the door- way of the shack: She did not she seem alarmed, even when saw the chain. She · was 0 pretty woman, except

for the loneliness in her eyes.

"They throwed me into soli- lary confinement and she said,

They folled... until a big, But as she looked at Jackson De nice. A man short weight ugly miner called Sam pleaded the sadness left her face. She me when I turned In my crop, for them. He did not deal with touched the stray wisps of her she'd say, 'Benlee, or you get the men as a lynch mob. He taway hair, Her, volce had a in trouble.'

treated them as individuals.

husky, eager tone. All she said "You wanted something

was:

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