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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
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. David Miller. Director. Edward Abbey.
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.
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John W. "Jack" Burns (Kirk Douglas) works as a roaming ranch hand much as the cowboys of the old West did, refusing to join modern society. He rejects much of modern technology, not even carrying any identification such as a driver's license or draft card. He can't provide an address because he just sleeps wherever he finds a place. As Burns crosse...
Lonely Are the Brave was made after star Kirk Douglas read Edward Abbey's novel The Brave Cowboyand insisted that Universal film it as a vehicle for him to star in. It happens to be a point of view I love. This is what attracted me to the story – the difficulty of being an individual today. Douglas assembled the cast and crew through his production...
The score to Lonely Are the Brave was composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith. Goldsmith's involvement in the picture was the result of a recommendation by veteran composer Alfred Newman who had been impressed with Goldsmith’s score on the television show Thriller and took it upon himself to recommend Goldsmith to the head of Universal Pictures’ ...
Bill Bixby has a small part as an airman in a helicopter, his first film appearance.This is one of the first film appearances of Carroll O'Connor (TV's All in the Family)Bill Raisch is the one-armed man who fights with Douglas in a memorable scene. The following year Raisch began menacing David Janssen in the classic TV series The Fugitive.Kirk Douglas was nominated for a 1963 BAFTA Award as "Best Foreign Actor" for his work in Lonely Are the Brave, and placed third in the Laurel Awards for "Top Action Performance". The Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA gave the film a "Golden Reel Award" for "Best Sound Editing" (Waldon O. Watson, Frank H. Wilkinson, James R. Alexander, James Curtis...
Jerry Bondi (Gena Rowlands): "Believe you me, if it didn't take men to make babies I wouldn't have anything to do with any of you!"Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas): "Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him....Jack Burns: "A westerner likes open country. That means he's got to hate fences. And the more fences there are, the more he hates them." Jerry Bondi: "I've never heard such nonsense in my life." Ja...Jack Burns: "I don't need [identification] cards to figure out who I am, I already know." This line was used by the fugitive sailor in "The Death Ship," the 1927(?) Novel by B. Traven.Lonely Are The Brave. Kirk Douglas plays an old fashioned cow hand who doesn't fit into early 1960s South Western USA. Walter Matthau is a police chief who has to chase him across…
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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.
