Lonely Are the Brave
Kirk Douglas stars as a cowboy out of step with modern society who becomes a fugitive, with Walter Matthau as the sympathetic sheriff tracking him down.
Based on Edward Abbey's novel The Brave Cowboy, the film marks the setting of the sun on the old Western way of life.
Part of the Film Studies programme examining the film music of Jerry Goldsmith.
- Director
- David Miller
- Year
- 1962
- Duration
- 107 mins
- Cast
- Carroll O'Connor, George Kennedy, Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau
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