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    Lonely Are the Brave

    1962 · Western · 1h 47m

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  1. 93% Tomatometer 14 Reviews 85% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings Ranch hand Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas) feels out of place in the modern world. Jack deliberately gets into a bar room fight to be ...

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    • Kirk Douglas
    • David Miller
    • Joel Productions
  2. Lonely are the Brave, a film fairly stuffed with symbolism, shows how inevitably the heroic, human, in its real sense unsophisticated world of the West and its values are crushed by the synthetic,...

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    The image presentation on Kino’s Blu-ray release of Lonely Are the Braveis absolutely stunning, especially given that the transfer wasn’t sourced from a new digital restoration. Thanks to its wonderful set design and deep focus photography, the film abounds in minute visual details, and the transfer renders every speck of dust, bead of sweat, and m...

    The highlight of this Blu-ray is the comprehensive audio commentary by film historians Howard S. Berger and Steve Mitchell. They contextualize Lonely Are the Brave as being of a piece with other late westerns of the early 1960s, such as John Huston’s The Misfits and Sam Peckinpah’s Ride the High Country, while also discussing the various traits tha...

    Of all the films he worked on, Lonely Are the Bravewas Kirk Douglas’s favorite, and this disc’s striking transfer and illuminating extras go a long way toward explaining why.

  3. Lonely Are the Brave is a 1962 American black and white Western film adaptation of the Edward Abbey novel The Brave Cowboy directed by David Miller from a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo and starring Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands and Walter Matthau.

  4. Jun 29, 2009 · Lonely Are the Brave | Film review. Film. Time Out says. You could never accuse David Miller’s 1962 testosterone-infused tragedy of being subtle: As Kirk Douglas’s rugged cowpoke Jack Burns...

  5. Lonely Are the Brave: Directed by David Miller. With Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, Michael Kane. A fiercely independent cowboy gets himself locked up in prison to escape with an old friend.

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  7. Based upon The Brave Cowboy, by Edward Abbey, Lonely Are The Brave is a very good screen adaptation of that classic work. Ed Abbey excelled at demonstrating the loss of the West, either in the environmental impacts that devastate vast areas (The Monkey Wrench Gang, Hayduke Lives), or the loss of individuality and freedom (Fire on the Mountain ...

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