Lonely are the Brave
Life can never cage a man like this!
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A poignant modern-day western about a fiercely independent man's doomed stand against an encroaching, mechanized world, driven by loyalty to a friend and a refusal to be tamed.
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
Essence
Ensemble
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
Martín Garralaga
Old Man
Lalo Rios
Prisoner
John Barton
Prisoner (uncredited)
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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.
