Lonely Are the Brave

Lonely Are the Brave is a 1962 American black and white neo-Western film directed by David Miller and written by Dalton Trumbo, who adapted his screenplay from the 1956 Edward Abbey novel The Brave Cowboy. It stars Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands and Walter Matthau. Kirk Douglas plays Jack Burns, a cowboy who refuses to adapt to the new world he finds himself in, teaming up with his old friend Paul Bondi's wife, Jerry, to break his friend out of jail. Burns, with his horse Whiskey, breaks out of jail by himself, then heads for the mountains with the goal of crossing the border into Mexico, pursued by the sheriff and his helicopter.