Top Billed Cast

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)
Ray Beltram
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Audrey Betz
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Bill Bixby
Airman in Helicopter (uncredited)
Eumenio Blanco
Prisoner (uncredited)
Oscar Blank
Prisoner (uncredited)
Don Carlos
Bar Patron (uncredited)
George Keymas
Deputy
Harry Lauter
Deputy in Canyon
Bill Raisch
One Arm
Vince St. Cyr
Navajo Prisoner Who Escapes
David O. McCall
Prisoner (uncredited)
Dan Sheridan
Deputy Glynn
Rudy Germane
Observer at Accident (uncredited)

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Thu May 18 2017

I don't need cards to figure out who I am, I already know. Lonely Are The Brave is directed by David Miller and adapted for the screen by Dalton Trumbo from the novel "The Brave Cowboy" written by Edward Abbey. It stars Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau & George Kennedy. Cinematography is from Phillip H. Lathrop and Jerry Goldsmith scores the music in what was his first major studio work. John (Jack) W. Burns is an old school cowboy who refuses to adapt to the new world he finds himself in. Modern technology is alien to him and he would rather perpetually roam with his horse Whi...