![]() ![]() Kirk, they said, you oughta make a cop picture. I made a movie two years ago, ‘ A Lovely Way to Die.’ They pushed me into it. A movie like that is so much better than some foreign horseshit about an actor chewing for twenty minutes. Maybe it was anti-Establishment, or maybe it was about a kooky cowboy. Take ‘Lonely Are the Brave.’ There was a movie that communicated on all levels. He said they take his mind off his problems. Turned out he'd seen just about every one of my movies. Tito sent his private plane to pick me up, and we talked for three hours. The English ambassador had been waiting six months to present his credentials. He smiled the Kirk Douglas smile, half nostalgic, half rueful, half ferocious. Staying power I was a star before I even heard of Julie Andrews." "That's what it all amounts to, you know. "Fifty pictures." His voice caressed the words. Then he slammed his hands together, looked down at the carpet and shook his head. He leaned forward, his elbows braced on his knees. Jesus!"ĭouglas took a seat on the very edge of a sofa. ‘There Was a Crooked Man.’ The last of my current trilogy and my fiftieth picture. Matthau’s warm performance gives the film life, while Douglas effectively becomes the voice of nostalgia speaking out against the dangers of the encroaching jet age and the loss of humanity to the technocrat."That was on this one. The heavy-handed ending has the escapee, who eluded the police, run down on the highway during a rainy night by an eighteen wheeler carrying bathroom fixtures (the truck was driven by a concerned Carroll O’Conner). ![]() It’s a highly symbolic film making the Douglas character a martyr for the cause. Sheriff Morey Johnson (Walter Matthau) is in charge of bringing in the fugitive, and during the course of the chase the wry humored sheriff comes to sympathize with the last of the cowboys. The cowboy on his horse Whiskey takes to the foothills in the hopes of crossing over to Mexico. So Burns escapes by himself, after receiving a beating from bully Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez (George Kennedy), and first goes to tell Paul’s wife Jerri (Gena Rowlands) that her man loves her and will return when his time is up. ![]() Bondi refuses to escape, claiming to be a changed man who loves his wife and child. It ends up a contest between an escaped felon cowboy, Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas), pursued by a sheriff, Morey Johnson (Walter Matthau), using jeeps and a helicopter.īurns lands in jail over a drunken bar fight in order to free his close friend Paul Bondi, serving a two year sentence for helping illegal Mexicans cross the border to find work in the States. It waxes poetic about the vanishing frontier and a way of life doomed by progress and technology. Kirk’s personal favorite film is a gripping modern western set in the 1950s in New Mexico. Writer Dalton Trumbo bases it on the novel “The Brave Cowboy” by Edward Abbey. The black-and-white film elegantly directed by David Miller (“Midnight Lace”) and photographed by Philip H. One of only a few Kirk Douglas films where the hammy actor didn’t want to make me gag. “One of only a few Kirk Douglas films where the hammy actor didn’t want to make me gag.” “Jack” Burns), Gena Rowlands (Jerri Bondi), Walter Matthau (Sheriff Morey Johnson), Michael Kane (Paul Bondi), Carroll O’Connor (truck driver), William Schallert (radio operator), George Kennedy (Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez) Runtime: 107 MPAA Rating: NR producer: Edward Lewis Universal 1962) Lathrop editor: Leon Barsha music: Jerry Goldsmith cast: Kirk Douglas (John W. (director: David Miller screenwriters: Dalton Trumbo/from the novel “The Brave Cowboy” by Edward Abbey cinematographer: Philip H. ![]()
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