Lonely Are the Brave
1962
***½
Director: David Miller
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, Michael Kane, Carroll O'Connor, William Schallert, George Kennedy, Karl Swenson, Bill Mims
Jack Burns is an old school cowboy who lives outside the grid. As Jack attempts to break his friend out of jail, he ends up being pursued by the law himself. This contemporary Western was scripted by Dalton Trumbo from Edward Abbey's 1956 novel The Brave Cowboy. It tells a simple story of a man who is at odds with the world changing around him. As Jack and his horse Whiskey flee the law, the second half in the mountains is tense but a bit overlong. Kirk Douglas gives a likeably laid-back performance.
