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Lonely Are the Brave

Year:

1962

Duration:

107 min

Genres:

Drama | Western

IMDB rate:

7.7

Director:

David Miller

Awards:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1962-06-14

Filming Locations: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

George Keymas

Harry Lauter

Kirk Douglas

John W. "Jack" Burns

Gena Rowlands

Jerry Bondi

Walter Matthau

Sheriff Morey Johnson

Michael Kane

Paul Bondi

Carroll O'Connor

Hinton

William Schallert

Harry

George Kennedy

Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez

Karl Swenson

Rev. Hoskins

William Mims

First Deputy Arraigning Burns (as Bill Mims)

Martin Garralaga

Old Man

Lalo Rios

Prisoner

Bill Bixby

Airman in Helicopter (uncredited)

Chuck Hamilton

Diner Patron (uncredited)

Tex Holden

Minor Role (uncredited)

Bill Raisch

One Arm (uncredited)

Dan Sheridan

Deputy Glynn (Comic Book) (uncredited)

Ray Spiker

Convict (uncredited)

Vince St. Cyr

Navajo Prisoner Who Escapes (uncredited)

Stuart Wade

Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

Charles Wagenheim

Vagrant Convict (uncredited)

Dan White

Convict (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

After Kirk Douglas read the novel "The 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.

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The one-armed man tells Jack Burns in the bar that he lost his arm at Okinawa during World War II. Bill Raisch, the actor who played the one-armed man, actually did lose his right arm in a fire on board a ship during the war. Raisch was Burt Lancaster's stand-in and later landed a recurring role in the TV series The Fugitive (1963).

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When preparing a compilation of film clips for Kirk Douglas' life achievement award by the Shoah Foundation, Steven Spielberg couldn't locate footage from this film and asked Universal for a clip. Spielberg recommended to the studio that the film be green-lighted for preservation, which it was.

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Goofs

If a helicopter's tail rotor is damaged, the helicopter would begin spinning, not swooping back and forth. The pilot would be forced to auto-rotate to a landing.

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In the bar scene, Burns sits down at a table with a mug of beer and drinks half of it. The one-armed man throws a bottle at him and in the next shot his mug is full.

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9 minutes into the movie when Jerry Bondi is putting ham into the frying pan, the bread bin next to her is shut. A couple of seconds later, it is open.

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Quotes

Jack Burns: This fellow wants action, I'm glad to accommodate him, do it with one arm behind my back. Any of you boys interfere, I'll use both arms.

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Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez: [Ominously] Telephone call... in the office.

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Jerry Bondi: I was expecting you, Jack. Isn't that odd? I heard a horse and I knew it was your horse.

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