Jack Burns: “You can always keep something.”

And either you go by the rules or you lose. And it’s got real borders and real fences and real laws and real trouble. The world you and Paul live in doesn’t exist. Jerry Bondi: “Jack, I’m going to tell you something. George Kennedy … Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez Gena Rowlands is Jerry Bondi, wife of the friend Burns wants to help escape Walter Matthau is the sheriff charged with bringing him in.Īnd Carroll O’Connor, in his pre-Archie Bunker days, is the driver of a truck full of portable toilets, a truck that plays a key role in the film’s poignant ending. Douglas supposedly considered it his favorite film, and one can understand why. One of the better modern Westerns you’ll find. From that point on, it’s him, his horse Whiskey and his rifle against a modern day posse that can use walkie-talkies, helicopters and airplanes to help track down its prey. He soon learns the friend isn’t willing to risk the longer sentence that would come with an escape conviction, so Burns breaks out alone. Upon learning that a best friend (Michael Kane as Paul Bondi) has been sentenced to two years in prison for helping illegal immigrants, Burns breaks into jail to help him break out. Kirk Douglas is Jack Burns, an individualist, a man who insists on living the wild and free life of a cowboy even in the post-World War II West in which he finds himself herding sheep more often than cattle.

Lonely are the brave cast of characters