![]() He sees the horse and is preparing to shoot when Burns sneaks up, knocking him unconscious with his rifle butt. Whiskey is repeatedly spooked by the helicopter, so Burns shoots the tail rotor, damaging it and causing the pilot to lose control and crash land.ĭeputy Gutierrez also chases Burns. A military helicopter is brought in, and when the aircrew locates Burns they relay his location to the sheriff. The police mount an extensive search, with Sheriff Johnson and his Deputy Sheriff Harry following him in a jeep. He also received a Purple Heart and a Distinguished Service Cross with oak leaf clusters for his valour during battle.īurns heads for the mountains on horseback with the goal of crossing the border into Mexico. After the jail break the sheriff learns that Burns served in the military during the Korean War, including seven months in a disciplinary training center for striking a superior officer. He therefore decides to remain, and Burns breaks out by himself, returning to Bondi's house, where he picks up his horse and some food from Bondi's wife. Bondi has accepted his two-year sentence knowing he has a family waiting and has too much at stake to become a fugitive from the law. On returning to his cell Burns tries to persuade Bondi to join him in escaping. The deputy summons Burns in the middle of the night and beats him. During the night the inmates saw through one of the jail's bars using two hacksaw blades Burns had hidden in one of his boots. Burns defends Bondi from the attention of sadistic Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez, who picks Burns as his next target. He tells Bondi he couldn't spend a year locked up because he'd probably kill someone. Joining Bondi in jail, Burns tries to persuade him to escape. The Sheriff, Morey Johnson, has to compel them to pay attention to their duties at times. The town is in a sleepy border area and the cops are mostly bored, occasionally dealing with minor offenses. He is now facing a probable sentence of a year in jail, which allows him to see Bondi, with the aim of helping him escape. When the police decide to let him go, he deliberately punches a cop to get himself re-arrested. After a violent barroom fight against a one-armed man, in which he is forced to use only one arm himself, Burns is arrested. To break Bondi out of jail, Burns decides he himself needs to get arrested. Jack explains his dislike for a society that restricts a man on where he can or can't go, what he can or can't do. She is the wife of an old friend, Paul Bondi, who has been jailed for giving aid to illegal immigrants. He cannot even provide the authorities with a home address because he just sleeps wherever he finds a place.Īs Burns crosses a highway into a town in New Mexico, his horse Whiskey has a difficult time crossing the road, confused and scared by the traffic. ![]() He rejects most of modern technology and carries no identification, such as a driver's license or draft card. "Jack" Burns is a veteran of the Korean War who works as a roaming ranch hand, much as the cowboys of the old West did, refusing to join modern society. Douglas said repeatedly that this was his favorite film of his own work. The picture also features an early score by composer Jerry Goldsmith. Kirk Douglas plays cowboy Jack Burns, Gena Rowlands portrays his best friend's wife and Walter Matthau appears as a sheriff who sympathizes with Burns but must do his job and chase him down. Lonely Are the Brave is a 1962 American black and white Western film adaptation of the Edward Abbey novel The Brave Cowboy directed by David Miller from a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo and starring Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands and Walter Matthau.
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