Lonely Are the Brave

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Lonely Are the Brave

1962,

1h 47m,

Western

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Ranch hand Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas) feels out of place in the modern world. Jack deliberately gets into a barroom fight to be imprisoned alongside friend Paul (Michael Kane), arrested for helping illegal aliens. Jack tries to convince Paul to flee with him, but, as a family man, Paul has too much at stake. After a beating from a sadistic police deputy (George Kennedy) and heads for the hills, he escapes. An extensive manhunt breaks out, led by sympathetic Sheriff Johnson (Walter Matthau).

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

May 23, 2020

3/4

It's worth noting that Kirk Douglas long professed that Lonely Are the Brave contains one of his own favorite performances.

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Sergio Benítez

Espinof

Sep 11, 2019

Such a shocking beginning is the first of many attributes that place this film as the best - and most atypical - western in which Jerry Goldsmith was involved throughout his professional career. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Nathanael Hood

The Retro Set

Dec 28, 2018

8/10

Afterwards, [Kirk Douglas] made no mystery of his love of the film, later declaring it his all-time favorite of his work. And why not?

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Isabel Quigly

The Spectator

Jul 13, 2018

Lonely are the Brave, a film fairly stuffed with symbolism, shows how inevitably the heroic, human, in its real sense unsophisticated world of the West and its values are crushed by the synthetic, the mechanical, the wasteful and vicious in modern life.

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Nov 1, 2009

David Miller builds sturdily on Philip Lathrop's widescreen cinematography, but Douglas and Dalton Trumbo's screenplay are the auteurs here

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jul 13, 2009

A-

Kirk Douglas produced and starred in this elegiac Western, scripted by Dalton Trumbo, which laments the vanishing Old West, its heroes and their mores, replaced by a modern world dominated by progress and technology.

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Albus M

Mar 26, 2019

So another in our continuing study of scrips by Dalton Trumbo. very good. But, oh, Whisky, I can't get you out of my mind!!! Why didn't you just get off and walk Whisky across? That is what I kept screaming at the TV

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Feb 1, 2019

The best Western movie ever made!

Draco R

Oct 2, 2018

I went here to look for a Dalton Trumbo script, and I discover that it is an antecessor for Rambo, just forgetting the part related to the war, and focused in a West world that has disappeared under modern influence. So, much more innocent, but also with an interesting message.

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Finn P

Jul 5, 2018

Western moderno en blanco y negro, una joyita!

Hermione L

May 6, 2018

not sure how gina rowlands character fits in, except for making her point that men are only tolerable to make babies. But overall, the film kept me initerested without special effects while carrying the message that by 1962 the american west as portrayed by hollywood was gone. most of today's audiences could not appreciate the rugged individualist of that bygone era, one where you remove your gunstock and stick it down your boot in order to compensate for a bullet-shot ankle just to keep going. i think douglas loved this movie because that's who he believed he was - the son of immigrants, pioneers in their own way - and hoped he carried their individualist spirit. I live in Tijeras canyon, east of albuquerque "the duke city", where the sandia mountains he crossed was filmed. They called it "scissors" canyon in the movie, which translated from spanish is "tijeras". other than interstate 40 going through that canyon, it and the sandia mountains are much the same today. there are still men on horseback herding cattle in the area, but there are just as many on quads doing the same job. such is life.

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Anakin R

Nov 13, 2017

A cowboy struggling to adjust to modern ways.

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Gena Rowlands

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Synopsis

Ranch hand Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas) feels out of place in the modern world. Jack deliberately gets into a barroom fight to be imprisoned alongside friend Paul (Michael Kane), arrested for helping illegal aliens. Jack tries to convince Paul to flee with him, but, as a family man, Paul has too much at stake. After a beating from a sadistic police deputy (George Kennedy) and heads for the hills, he escapes. An extensive manhunt breaks out, led by sympathetic Sheriff Johnson (Walter Matthau).

Director: David Miller
Producer: Edward Lewis
Screenwriter: Edward Abbey, Dalton Trumbo
Distributor: MCA/Universal Pictures [us], Universal International Pictures
Production Co: Joel Productions
Genre: Western
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 24, 1962, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 1, 2015
Runtime: 1h 47m
Sound Mix: Mono

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