Lonely Are the Brave (1962)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.7/10   

Director:

David Miller

Escritores:

Edward Abbey (novel)
Dalton Trumbo (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

24 mayo 1962 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Del Oeste

Frase comercial:

Life can never cage a man like this!

Plot:

In order to free his best friend Bondi, Jack Burns lets himself be imprisoned only to find out that Bondi does not want to escape...

Plot Keywords:

Tragedy | Rebel | Barroom Brawl | Helicopter Crash | Jail Break

Premios:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins

Comentarios de los usuarios:

How Rare Are The Brave

Reparto

Kirk Douglas	...	John W. "Jack" Burns
Gena Rowlands	...	Jerry Bondi
Walter Matthau	...	Sheriff Morey Johnson
Michael Kane	...	Paul Bondi
Carroll O'Connor	...	Hinton (truck driver)
William Schallert	...	Harry (soft-spoken radio operator)
George Kennedy	...	Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez
Karl Swenson	...	Rev. Hoskins (prison inmate)
William Mims	...	First deputy arraigning Burns (as Bill Mims)
Martin Garralaga	...	Old man (observer in Latin bar)
Lalo Rios	...	Prisoner

También conocida como:

The Last Hero (USA) (working title)
Los valientes andan solos (Spain) [es]

Duración:

107 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Clasificación:

Australia:PG | USA:TV-PG | UK:A (original rating) | USA:Approved (PCA #20037) | Finland:K-16 | West Germany:12 | Argentina:Atp

Locaciones de Filmación:

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Compañía:

Joel Productions

Trivialidades:

After Kirk Douglas read the book Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey, he purchased the rights to the novel and gave the project to his friend Dalton Trumbo. Douglas said Trumbo's screenplay was perfect, the best he had ever read, and didn't change one word of it.

Errores:

Personal o Equipo Visible: Five minutes into the movie when Jack Burns is watering his horse and Jerry Bondi is cautioning him to be careful, a crewmember is reflected in the window of the car in the background.

Citas:

[first lines]
[to his horse, as he watches jets leave contrails across the sky]
Jack Burns: Time we took off, too.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Tatort: Märchenwald (#1.576)" (2004)

How Rare Are The Brave

I just couldn't let the previous review stand as the only review of this film. Based upon The Brave Cowboy, by Edward Abbey, Lonely Are The Brave is a very good screen adaptation of that classic work. Ed Abbey excelled at demonstrating the loss of the West, either in the environmental impacts that devastate vast areas (The Monkey Wrench Gang, Hayduke Lives), or the loss of individuality and freedom (Fire on the Mountain, The Brave Cowboy). Ed Abbey understood that the character of America survived-until recent times-upon rugged individualism that could unite with others in times of trouble. Jack Burns is an individualist who wants to live his own way, yet he had fought in WWII, and was coming to the aid of a friend. Burns does not try to make others live as he does or make them believe as he does, he simply wants to be left alone in a rapidly shrinking world with his sense of frontier dignity intact. Walter Matthau plays the sheriff who understands his adversary too well; his is the character that has lost the faith and become a collaborator. Matthau's bumbling deputies represent the federal government who stumble over themselves in order to crush Burns' freedom. Kirk Douglas considers this one of his most important films. Ed Abbey approved of the film and even makes a walk-on appearance.