
He ignores pleas from the sympathetic local sheriff ( Walter Matthau) to surrender, and a manhunt ensues. When Bondi decides that he would rather serve his sentence, Burns breaks out by himself and becomes a fugitive. When his friend Paul Bondi (Michael Kane) is arrested for smuggling illegal immigrants across the border, Burns breaks the law and is himself arrested as part of his plan to help Bondi escape jail. He disdains modern comforts, travels by horseback, and commits minor acts of civil disobedience to tweak authorities. Jack Burns (played by Douglas) is a middle-aged cowboy who is comfortable on the plains of New Mexico but woefully unable to fit into urban society. Kirk Douglas earned acclaim in the lead role. Lonely Are the Brave, American western film, released in 1962, that was a downbeat but moving tale of a cowboy out of place in the modern American West.

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