![]() ![]() Jack Burns says he can't live behind bars and walls. He wants to serve his time and rejoin his wife and son. His friend has been jailed for helping undocumented immigrants. Jack starts a bar brawl with a one-armed man to get arrested, and thrown into a small-town jail where he wants to help an old friend break out. ![]() "And the signs they got on them: no hunting, no hiking, no admission, no trespassing, private property, closed area, start moving, go away, get lost, drop dead!" "Have you ever noticed how many fences there're getting to be?" Jack Burns asks an old girlfriend. It's the story of Jack Burns, a free spirit with a spirited horse, but no fixed address, who tries to survive as a cowboy in the modern American West of superhighways and fenced-in prairies. It was not a cowboy film with shootouts and sagebrush. Another epic, like Spartacus? An adventure, like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? A scorching star vehicle, like Lust for Life? What Kirk Douglas chose to do was a small-scale film, black and white, not widescreen Technicolor, drawn from Edward Abbey's novel, The Brave Cowboy. Kirk Douglas as Spartacus in the movie that won four Oscars.Īfter Kirk Douglas produced and starred in Spartacus in 1960, a film that won four Oscars and was the biggest moneymaker of the year, he could probably get Hollywood to finance almost any film he wanted to make. ![]()
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