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Bleak Week 2026
Fri Jun 05

Lonely Are the Brave

Selected and introduced by Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts | Screening on 35mm
YEAR
1962
ACCESSIBILITY
HI
FORMAT
35MM
RUNTIME
1h 47m
DIRECTOR
David Miller
CAST
Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, Carroll O'Connor, William Schallert, Michael Kane

SYNOPSIS

Selected and introduced by Carrie Coon (His Three Daughters) and Tracy Letts (A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE) on June 5

 

35mm print! Academy Award® winner Kirk Douglas ignites the screen with one of his most personal roles as a cowboy on a collision course with the modern world. After landing himself in jail trying to break out his friend, Jack Burns (Douglas) finds himself alone and on the run from the law. Leading the manhunt is Sheriff Morey Johnson (Walter Matthau), who must bring Burns to justice despite his own sympathy for the fugitive.

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