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Lonely Are the Brave is a 1962 American black and white Western film adaptation of the Edward Abbey novel The Brave Cowboy directed by David Miller from a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo [2] and starring Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands and Walter Matthau.
Jul 27, 2012 · The material — the story of a modern-day cowboy who breaks into jail to rescue his best friend — is original for a western, and gets better as it goes along.
Dec 2, 2014 · NOTE: This is a story about the film ‘Lonely are the Brave,’ based on the book, ‘Brave Cowboy,’ by Edward Abbey and my efforts to find, in 2014, the original film locations from the 1961 production.
Aug 11, 2009 · Lonely Are the Brave (1962), based on the novel Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey, is as much a ballad as it is a movie, a sad song about a man who falls afoul of the law and is pursued far up a mountain by a passel of dull-witted cops and some overzealous chopper pilots.
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Crossing 4th Street & Gibson Blvd…at the same time
On our first reconnaissance trip to Albuquerque, we depended solely on our instincts, our sense of direction, and our ability to align real time geographical features with specific film location images that we’d brought along as screenshots. For the most part we did quite well. We found sites on the westside of Albuquerque near the Volcanoes, some of the “escape” locations at the base of the Sandias, and thought we’d located the vicinity, at least, of the Bondi home. But we struggled to find...
The film documents described the setting for the Bondi home at “Edith & Tyler Avenues,” a site not that far from the 4th Street scene. Further, a May 28, 1961 story from the Albuquerque Journal provides more specific information. The movie was being called “The Last Hero” during production and had gained the attention of the local media. Kirk Dougl...
After Burns’ escape from jail and visit to the Bondi home, he makes a bee line for the Sandias. He pauses to rest his horse and himself near an old stone cabin that many of our readers believe is the La Cueva cabin, just a few miles up the narrow Juan Tabo road from Tramway Highway. We easily found the cabin but again, we came to the conclusion tha...
Almost half of “Lonely Are the Brave” is shot near the base or the summit of the Sandia Crest. In 2014, we found most of those scenes that were shot along Juan Tabo Canyon. But we ran out of time and had to save our drive to the top of the Sandias for later. Though the ridge and accompanying array of towers and transmitters are less than a mile awa...
Despite our best efforts, we were still having a hard time relocating the scenes of Hinton and his truck as he makes his way across the country, from Joplin to Tulsa and beyond, until his fateful rendezvous with Burns and Whisky. Most readers thought the scenes were shot somewhere in Tijeras Canyon as Interstate 40 descends into the Rio Grande Vall...
The location shots
This information surely made our work easier. The location lists and continuity sheets led us directly to some of the film locations that had previously left us scratching our heads.
Abbey’s letter to David Miller
Among the documents at the Kirk Douglas archives in Wisconsin is a wonderful letter from Edward Abbey to the director of the film, David Miller. Abbey had written “Brave Cowboy,” the novel upon which the film was based, in 1956. Now, just five years later, seeing it brought to the screen must have been particularly rewarding. Abbey was only in his early 30s when Kirk Douglas bought the film rights and now, Ed was offering suggestions and urging changes to a screenplay penned by one of his own...
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Mar 16, 2024 · Whereas The Wild Bunch created an elegiac ode to the passing of an era through bloody, visceral violence, Lonely Are the Brave imposes its narrative through rhetorical violence, saving its most...
May 18, 2020 · The story was based on Edward Abbey’s novel, “Brave Cowboy,” but Universal Studios insisted on changing the name. “I didn’t like that title,” says elder Douglas. “I wanted to call it ‘The Last Cowboy.’”
