MFAH Film Restorations & Revivals: Lonely Are the Brave

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the Restorations & Revivals film series. Enjoy these classics from world cinema on the big screen in Brown Auditorium Theater!

Lonely Are the Brave
Director David Miller
Released 1962
Country USA
Running Time 107 minutes
Format 35mm, B/W

In celebration of Kirk Douglas’s centennial, MFAH Films screens the film in which he starred that is among his favorites.

Also starring Gena Rowlands and Walter Matthau, this black-and-white Western classic features Douglas as a ferociously autonomous cowboy who plans to break a friend out of jail by getting himself incarcerated in the same facility.

Dalton Trumbo’s screenplay is concerned with the virtues of freedom and individuality, a pertinent theme for him as he was blacklisted during the notorious HUAC hearings.

Lonely Are the Brave had its world premiere in Houston.