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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 and starring Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands and Walter Matthau.
A cowboy tries to free his friend from jail and escapes into the mountains, but faces a manhunt by a sheriff with a helicopter. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this drama western film.
- (10K)
- Drama, Western
- David Miller
- 1962-05-25
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A ranch hand (Kirk Douglas) escapes from prison and tries to evade a manhunt in the mountains. The movie, based on a novel by Edward Abbey, explores themes of freedom, justice and human nature.
- (14)
- Kirk Douglas
- David Miller
- Joel Productions
Academy Award winner Kirk Douglas ignites the screen with one of his most personal roles as a cowboy on a collision course with the modern world in Lonely are the Brave.
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.
Synopsis. The movie opens with modern day cowboy Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas) stretched out beside a dying campfire at dawn, awakened by the roar of fighter jets above the vast, open scrub-lands of New Mexico. Burns is a cowboy ill at ease with the modern world of the early 1960s.
