Kirk Douglas plays a rowdy cowboy on the run.
Gary Thompson: Kirk delivers the thrills in 'Lonely Are the Brave'
A COUPLE mediocre thrillers this week - Nic Cage's "Knowing" and Dakota Fanning's "Push."
So it's a good week to look for newly issued old stuff, and the best of the bunch is Universal's $8.99 (the price is right!) "Lonely Are the Brave," an offbeat, downbeat 1962 neo-western starring Kirk Douglas as a rowdy cowboy who busts out of jail and fights off the law (Walter Matthau) and the advance of the modern world.
Makes a nice counterpoint to "Public Enemies," currently in theaters, another saga of doomed individualist giving way to a modern, technological, less romantic world.
"Public Enemies" is more handsome, more expensive, but it's hard to beat Douglas when he's at his feisty, ornery best, as he is here. *
