Hot on Jack’s trail is cynical world-weary Sheriff Johnson, portrayed by future Academy Award winner Walter Matthau. Needless to say, the plan falls apart and Jack ends up alone with his horse, a fugitive from the law. But what really gets the story moving is when Burns hatches a plan to break into jail so as to meet up with his friend Paul and help him escape.
When Burns learns that his friend, Paul Bondi (Michael Kane) has been detained for helping illegal immigrants cross the border into New Mexico, he decides to ride – literally – to the rescue.Ĭomplicating matters slightly are his feelings for Bondi’s wife, Jerri (Gena Rowlands in an early film role). Burns is a charming anachronism, a rugged individualist who eschews automobiles for his horse and hates barbed wire fences and artificial borders. With a screenplay adapted from Edward Abbey’s novel, The Brave Cowboy (1956) and penned by Dalton Trumbo, the movie stars Kirk Douglas as Jack Burns, a cowboy trying to make his way in modern industrial society. Director: David MillerĪlthough the film languished in relative obscurity for decades, the 2009 DVD release of Lonely are the Brave likely introduced a new generation to this remarkably effective modern Western. Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, based on the novel The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey.
Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, Carroll O’Connor, William Schallert, George Kennedy.
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