50th Anniversary! LONELY ARE THE BRAVE, 1962 September 19, 2012

Wednesday, September 19 – 7:30 PM
50th Anniversary! LONELY ARE THE BRAVE, 1962, Universal, 107 min. David Miller helmed screenwriter Dalton Trumbo’s mournful masterpiece, a hymn to rugged individualism and freedom slowly being strangled to death by voracious urban development. Kirk Douglas, a Korean War vet, is a footloose cowboy who lives most of his life under the stars, going from job to job, and not averse to cutting his way through barbed-wire fences when they get in his way. His uncompromising spirit is severely challenged when he breaks out of jail after a minor offense, and the entire county’s police force tries to recapture him before he can leave the territory. Walter Matthau is the pursuing sheriff, a thoughtful man with a growing, begrudging admiration for his fugitive, and Gena Rowlands is Douglas’ faithful friend, a woman who fears the world will sooner or later crush him. Discussion before the film with Kirk Douglas. Signed copies of Douglas’ I Am Spartacus! Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist will be sold at 6:30 PM in the Egyptian lobby.
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