Lonely Are the Brave News

On Monday, let us begin a study of a screen icon: Kirk Douglas . The West Hartford Public Library, at 20 S. Main St., is beginning a Monday night series of free screenings of movies starring the strong-jawed leading man.

The periodic drunken bender of a New Frontier cowboy lands him, for once, in more trouble than he bargained for, and the trouble escalates into a test of his survival and his self-image in the modern world.

Speaking of Edward Abbey: He opposed the future as articulated by Dwight Eisenhower , George Orwell and Ridley Scott .

The cowboy and his horse struggle to gain purchase on the rocky mountainside, boots and hooves ineffective in Mother Nature's majesty.

In John Maybury's speculative investigation of the romantic entanglements of poet Dylan Thomas, Keira Knightley plays Vera Phillips, Thomas' real-life childhood friend from Wales.

Hey folks, Harry here - and right from the get go, I'll apologize for missing the past two weeks.

Kirk Douglas was such a gigantic star for so long, it's easy to forget what a subtle actor he could be.

"A Westerner likes open country. That means he's got to hate fences, and the more fences there are, the more he hates them." - Jack Burns Opening Statement In 1962, our modern world was starting to become confining, not just with fences made out of wood or barbed wire but with fences made out of laws as well.

After Kirk Douglas helped break the Hollywood blacklist by hiring the well-known radical Dalton Trumbo to write the screenplay for 1960's "Spartacus," Douglas teamed up again with Trumbo on "Lonely Are the Brave." But that excellent film from 1962, which Trumbo adapted from Edward Abbey's novel and stars Douglas as a cowboy who doesn't fit in with ...

Lonely Are the Brave Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins Genre: Westerns Synopsis: Kirk Douglas, as cowboy Jack Burns, breaks jail to help an old friend and heads for the state border with the sheriff, played by Walter Matthau, in pursuit.

This week, we start with some old-timers: Coming to DVD. Universal Home Entertainment continues with its engaging "Adventure Singles: Universal Backlot Series," an ongoing look at some old, and some very old, movies worthy of re-examination. The last two named titles have been plucked from Universal's library of old Paramount films.

What: "Lonely are the Brave," centerpiece exhibition of Contemporary Art Month. The title is taken from the 1962 Kirk Douglas movie.

When actress Gena Rowlands arrived in Hollywood in the 1950s, she could easily have opted to take the Hollywood starlet route.