Lonely Are the Brave

And that's a movie that I had to discover.

Viggo Mortensen, a great actor and filmmaker, he chose a film that I was not familiar with called Lonely Are the Brave, a great Western with Kirk Douglas.

And I'm so glad that he turned me on to that film.

I love the fact that they didn't pick...

I mean, as early as the '30s, but really the '40s and the '50s, that, you know, because of social mores, we had to pull back, or they had to pull back, and in doing so I think sort of created a, a real sense of conflict that has resonated and, you know, within the characters I should say.

So, you know, we looked at out of the past, of course, and a little bit more of a wild movie was like Lonely are the Brave, you know, sort of stories of people out of time-

Mm-hmm

... literally and figuratively.

Well, my friend Avi Hern, who's a film historian in his own right, we're dissecting the career of Kirk Douglas, talking about our favorite Kirk Douglas movies.

So there's gonna be a lot of discussions about films like Spartacus and Lonely Are the Brave, and, uh, we're really excited about bringing Douglas back into the mainstream.

I actually was one of the last people to interview him.

I did a cover story for Cinema Retro on Lonely Are the Brave and got to spend a, a good hour with him.

He, I brought my poster for Lonely Are the Brave with me, and he signed it, uh, "Dear Steve, I used to be a movie star," [laughs] Kirk Douglas.

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Well, you got, you got a man who put his money where his mouth is on Spartacus.