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Title: Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
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Cast
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| Kirk Douglas | ... |
John W. "Jack" Burns
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| Gena Rowlands | ... |
Jerry Bondi
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| Walter Matthau | ... |
Sheriff Morey Johnson
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Michael Kane | ... |
Paul Bondi
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| Carroll O'Connor | ... |
Hinton
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| William Schallert | ... |
Harry
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| George Kennedy | ... |
Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez
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| Karl Swenson | ... |
Rev. Hoskins
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William Mims | ... |
First Deputy Arraigning Burns
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Martin Garralaga | ... |
Old Man
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Lalo Rios | ... |
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Plot Synopsis
Storyline
In order to free his best friend Bondi, Jack Burns lets himself be imprisoned only to find out that Bondi does not want to escape. Thus Burns breaks out on his own and is afterwards being chased by sheriff Johnson with helicopters and jeeps. Written by Volker Boehm
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Country:
USARelease Date:
14 June 1962 (Mexico) See more »Also Known As:
The Last Cowboy See more »Box Office
Budget:
$2,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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[to his horse, as he watches jets leave contrails across the sky]
Jack Burns: Time we took off, too.
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After Kirk Douglas read the novel "The Brave Cowboy" by Edward Abbey, he purchased the rights to it and gave the project to his friend Dalton Trumbo. Douglas said Trumbo's screenplay was perfect, the best he had ever read, and he didn't change one word of it. See more »Goofs
The helicopter pilot reported that Burns fired at his tail rotor (to allow him to land safely). However, without actually seeing the trajectory of the bullet, angle of the rifle, or the impact (it missed), the pilot had absolutely no way of knowing Burns' intentions. See more »Quotes
[first lines][to his horse, as he watches jets leave contrails across the sky]
Jack Burns: Time we took off, too.
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I agree with Douglas in considering this his best film, in my opinion together with Man Without a Star. He is a lonely cowboy, living a meaningless life, beginning to realize his mistake about the way he lived. When he goes for his last stand, there is something desperate about it. At a certain moment we see Douglas running away from the police in the mountains, together with his horse Whiskey, when they see a wild cat (jaguar?, puma?). It is a memorable scene, because the three of them look sad, surpassed by the times, represented by the highway that is near. This film probably was made in Albuquerque, NM, I think I can recognize the Sandia Mountains on the background.