--Kirk Douglas was being interviewed one time, and was asked what he thought was his best film in his career. I said, `Lonely are the Brave!` He said, `Well, not too many people know this film of mine, but.....`-Mishka Allport-Fortaleza, Brasil
---A high quality up-load of one of my personal favorites. An homage to individualism. A lone and principled man tested by changing times and the drive of his fiercely independent conscience.
---An underrated gem of a movie and one of Douglas' personal favorites. Excellent performances by Douglas and Matthau as the leads, as well as by all the supporting cast. The downbeat ending still puts a bit of a lump in my throat.
---One of the best opening scenes ever filmed. A lonesome cowboy lying in the desert dirt, smoking a cigarette as three jets cut a trail in the sky. The first time viewer thinks the film is one thing then abruptly changes to another thing. Excellent work.
---Saw this as a young man....it will forever stay with me. Gena is such a hottie!!
---Kirk Douglas's favorite movie of his. I rank it up with "Paths of Glory"
--- think Kirk DOUGLAS is at his very best in this movie. Hollywood has never had a better tragic hero. The horse removing the cover that goes underneath the saddle was actually NOT in the s***. Mr. DOUGLAS had to improvise around it (according to Mr. DOUGLAS himself). Mr. DOUGLAS also touched me very deeply in a Stanley KRAMER movie called THE JUGGLER --a forgotten movie alas. Mazel Tov Yssur on your 100th birthday! (Yssur Danilovich DEMSKY, I believe, was Mr. DOUGLAS' real birth name).