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Lonely Are the Brave

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Lonely Are the Brave (1962)

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Reviews Counted:10

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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

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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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Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
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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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07/13/09
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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One of only a few Kirk Douglas films where the hammy actor didn't want to make me gag.

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02/06/06
Dennis Schwartz
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Kirk Douglas remains the epitome of the rugged individual in the classic neo-western Lonely Are the Brave

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Kirk's favorite, and a true classic.

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Steve Crum
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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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