Lonely are the Brave (1962) | |
| Director(s) | David Miller |
| Producer(s) | Edward Lewis |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation, Western |
| Top Topics | Book-Based |
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Lonely are the Brave (1962) was a Western - Drama Film directed by David Miller and produced by Edward Lewis.
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Lonely Are The Brave (1962): The Last Cowboy
By 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 27, 2020 From 4 Star FilmsArmed with black and white and rolling plains full of instantly recognizable western exteriors, Lonely Are The Brave goes for an intimate approach. The camera focuses on a man splayed out with his hat tipped over his eyes in slumber. This could have been out of many earlier pictures up until this mo... Read full article
Kirk Douglas's Lonely Are the Brave
By Rick29 on Mar 23, 2020 From Classic Film & TV CafeOf all the films he made, Kirk Douglas listed Lonely Are the Brave (1962) as his favorite. Yet, this unusual contemporary Western was not a box office hit and rarely gets mentioned among his best movies. It has its admirers, though, to include Steven Spielberg and Kirk's son Michael. It's easy to s... Read full article
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
By Beatrice on Jul 19, 2017 From Flickers in TimeLonely Are the Brave Directed by David Miller Written by Dalton Trumbo from a novel by Edward Abbey 1962/USA Joel Productions First viewing/Netflix rental Jack Burns: What do you mean? Paul Bondi: You act like a man who thinks he’s going to break out of jail. Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas) is a ... Read full article
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Jerry Bondi: Jack I'm gonna tell you something. The world that you and Paul live in doesn't exist, maybe it never did. Out there is a real world and it's got real border and real fences, real laws and real trouble. And either you go by the rules or you lose.
Sheriff Morey Johnson: You'd think we're chasing a ghost... an invisible horse and an invisible cowboy. Harry, throw me that canteen. I haven't got enough spit left to wet a stick of gum.
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After Kirk Douglas read the novel "Brave Cowboy" by Edward Abbey, he purchased the rights to it and gave the project to his friend Dalton Trumbo. Douglas said Trumbo's screenplay was perfect, the best he had ever read, and he didn't change one word of it.
Twentieth Century Fox composer Alfred Newman had admired Jerry Goldsmith's work on the TV series Thriller and recommended that the young composer be hired. It proved the first major credit in what would become a long and productive career as a film composer.
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