UW Cinematheque - Owen Kline Presents!
Lonely Are The Brave | USA | 1962 | 35mm | 107 min. Director: David Miller
Event Details
Date
Sunday, March 1, 2026
Time
2:30 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau.
Douglas plays Jack Burns, a hard-living, old-fashioned cowboy in a very modern world. When Burns is busted and escapes from jail, he and his magnificent horse Whiskey attempt to elude a posse (who use helicopters) through rugged Southwestern territory. Like Spartacus, Lonely Are the Brave features a screenplay by the formerly blacklisted Dalton Trumbo.
Douglas plays Jack Burns, a hard-living, old-fashioned cowboy in a very modern world. When Burns is busted and escapes from jail, he and his magnificent horse Whiskey attempt to elude a posse (who use helicopters) through rugged Southwestern territory. Like Spartacus, Lonely Are the Brave features a screenplay by the formerly blacklisted Dalton Trumbo.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-3627 or email ben.reiser@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Sunday, February 15, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.