![]() ![]() Though he was too young to have participated in the filming or production of “Lonely Are the Brave,” his interest in its history led him to Madison, Wisconsin, the home of the Kirk Douglas Film Archive. ![]() I suspected Jack Burns might have wanted to avoid that basketball game as well.Ī decade would pass before I’d discover “Desert Solitaire” and Edward Abbey and learn that he was the author of the novel upon which the film was based. I even felt a certain vindication on that evening, thinking that there was nothing wrong with the notion that I preferred solitude and quiet, to the noise and mayhem of large elbow-to-elbow gatherings. But from the very first scene, “Lonely Are the Brave” resonated viscerally with me, in some very deep part of my soul. Even then, I was sort of a loner and on that particular evening, my last minute decision to not attend a basketball game with my family had caused yet another argument with my parents. Just a couple years after its theatrical release, “Lonely Are the Brave” showed up as a “Saturday Night at the Movies” offering on NBC. ![]() I had first seen the film when I was only 13 or 14 years old. “Lonely Are the Brave” starred Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, and Gena Rowlands, and was based upon the Edward Abbey novel, “The Brave Cowboy.” The product of our efforts appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of The Zephyr. ![]()
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