Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

Like The Defiant Ones, this film pairs an unrepentant racist with a Black man to accomplish a difficult task. Unlike that other movie, the white man, played by a dislikable Robert Ryan, has no interest in ever actually working with the other, a degenerate gambler and musician played by Harry Belafonte. Ed Begley brings these two together in an attempt to pull off a small town bank robbery to explosive results. The film doesn’t shy away from showing the parallels between the existences of the two men. Shelley Winters and Gloria Grahame are thankless as women in Ryan’s stratosphere, as Kim Hamilton is in Belafonte’s.