• 
  Stanley Kramer

  regizor

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  Nedrick Young

  scenarist
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  Harold Jacob Smith

  scenarist

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  Sidney Poitier

  Noah Cullen
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  Tony Curtis

  John 'Joker' Jackson
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  Cara Williams
• 
  Whit Bissell

  Lou Gans
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  Harold Jacob Smith

  Prison truck driver

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  Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer

  Angus
• 
  Nedrick Young

  Prison guard in truck
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  Theodore Bikel

  Max Muller
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  Charles McGraw

  Frank Gibbons
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  Claude Akins

  Mack
• 
  Lon Chaney Jr.

  Big Sam
• 
  Kevin Coughlin

  Billy

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  Lawrence Dobkin

  Editor
• 
  King Donovan

  Solly
• 
  James Dime
• 
  Clem Fuller
• 
  Ned Glass
• 
  Mickey Golden
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  Herman Hack
• 
  Boyd 'Red' Morgan
• 
  Carroll O'Connor

• 
  Stanley Kramer

  producător
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  Sam Leavitt

  imagine
• 
  Ernest Gold

  coloană sonoră
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  Rudolph Sternad

  design de producţie
• 
  Joseph Kish

  decoruri