The Defiant Ones

To quote Tony Curtis from a Metro Weekly article in 2002:

In 1958’s The Defiant Ones, Curtis played opposite Sidney Poitier, as two prisoners, shackled together, on the run.

That movie, says Curtis, contained a homosexual subtext. "The subject of homosexuality did not come up literally," he says during a phone call from Dallas [...] "but it was so evident. There have been a number of movies I’ve found myself in without even thinking about it doing it because I like the idea of the impudent attitude toward sex, politics or anything else. My film career always kind of moved in that direction."