HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: The Defiant Ones


When:Monday, July 27, 2009
Time:8:00 p.m.
Where:Bryant Park
Bryant Park Lawn (42nd Street and 6th Avenue)
Manhattan
Cost:Free

The nation’s premier outdoor film festival brings classic films to the big screen for the 17th consecutive year. Thousands of movie fans flock to the park for picnics and an evening of film’s biggest stars in Bryant Park. The lawn opens at 5 p.m. and the films start at sunset.

This week’s presentation is “The Defiant Ones.” Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis are opposites unhappily shackled together after escaping from a chain-gang in the South. As they flee from the police, director Stanley Kramer showcases the humorous and moving situations featuring memorable characters the fugitives come across as they fight for their lives.

About Danielle Clarke