Lonely Are the Brave (1962)

Original title

Lonely are the Brave

Directed by

David Miller, Kirk Douglas

Genre

drama film, Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 171 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A modern cowboy named Jack Burns refuses to adapt to a changing world. After helping his friend escape from jail, he is chased across the New Mexico desert by a sympathetic sheriff.

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What happens

Lonely Are the Brave is a 1962 American black and white Western film adaptation of the 1956 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. Kirk Douglas plays Jack Burns, a cowboy, Gena Rowlands portrays his best friend's wife, and Walter Matthau appears as a sheriff who sympathizes with Burns but must do his job and chase him down. The picture also features an early score by composer Jerry Goldsmith. Douglas repeatedly said that this was his favorite film of his own work. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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