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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 [2] and starring Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands and Walter Matthau.
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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- Drama, Western
- David Miller
- 1962-05-25
Lonely are the Brave. Lonely are the Brave is a 1962 American western drama movie directed by David Miller and was based on the 1956 novel The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey. It stars Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands, George Kennedy, Bill Bixby, Carroll O'Connor and was distributed by Universal Pictures.
Overview. A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
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Lonely Are the Brave, American western film, released in 1962, that was a downbeat but moving tale of a cowboy out of place in the modern American West. Kirk Douglas earned acclaim in the lead role.
Jack Burns (played by Douglas) is a middle-aged cowboy who is comfortable on the plains of New Mexico but woefully unable to fit into urban society. He disdains modern comforts, travels by horseback, and commits minor acts of civil disobedience to tweak authorities. When his friend Paul Bondi (Michael Kane) is arrested for smuggling illegal immigrants across the border, Burns breaks the law and is himself arrested as part of his plan to help Bondi escape jail. When Bondi decides that he would rather serve his sentence, Burns breaks out by himself and becomes a fugitive. He ignores pleas from the sympathetic local sheriff (Walter Matthau) to surrender, and a manhunt ensues. Against all odds, Burns manages to outwit his pursuers, using his familiarity with the rugged landscape to his advantage. However, his quest for freedom ends tragically after he and his horse are fatally hit by a truck while crossing a highway.
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•Studio: Joel Productions
•Director: David Miller
•Producer: Edward Lewis
•Writer: Dalton Trumbo
•Music: Jerry Goldsmith
•Running time: 107 minutes
•Kirk Douglas (John [“Jack”] W. Burns)
•Gena Rowlands (Jerry Bondi)
•Walter Matthau (Sheriff Morey Johnson)
•Michael Kane (Paul Bondi)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas), a roaming cowboy whose fierce individualism is at odds with contemporary urban values, emerges from the mountains when he learns that his friend Paul Bondi (Michael Kane) has been jailed for helping illegal immigrants cross the border into the United States.
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Synopsis. Jack Burns, an itinerant cowboy whose individualism clashes with modern-day life, rides down from the mountains when he learns that his friend Paul Bondi has been jailed for helping illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.
