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Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:9
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Westerns
Synopsis: Kirk Douglas, as cowboy Jack Burns, breaks jail to help an old friend and heads for the state border with the sheriff, played by Walter Matthau, in pursuit. Based on Edward Abbey's elegiac novel... Kirk Douglas, as cowboy Jack Burns, breaks jail to help an old friend and heads for the state border with the sheriff, played by Walter Matthau, in pursuit. Based on Edward Abbey's elegiac novel "The Brave Cowboy" and written by Dalton Trumbo, Burns's flight for freedom on his old horse, pursued by jeeps and helicopter, is an eloquent metaphor for the passing of the old West and its virtues. [More]
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy, Carroll O'Connor
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy, Carroll O'Connor, Gena Rowlands, William Schallert, Karl Swenson
Director: David Miller
Director: David Miller
Producer: Edward Lewis
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Reviews for Lonely Are the Brave
David Miller builds sturdily on Philip Lathrop's widescreen cinematography, but Douglas and Dalton Trumbo's screenplay are the auteurs here
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.
One of only a few Kirk Douglas films where the hammy actor didn't want to make me gag.
Kirk Douglas remains the epitome of the rugged individual in the classic neo-western Lonely Are the Brave
Douglas oferece uma atuação curiosamente divertida, mas o roteiro de Dalton Trumbo (normalmente um mestre) fracassa ao se concentrar na longa perseguição em vez de fornecer elementos para que possamos comprender melhor as motivações do protagonista.
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