The Best 100 Films of All Time!!!

Those among you who know me, know me to be a big filmbuff. As a matter of fact, a good many of you frequently ask me to identify old films by way of some vague memories. Naturally, my knowledge is as personal as my taste but since this is my blog, I will start talking about what I perceive to be the 100 Best Films of all Time. This may not be films you are familiar with. Some of them are old films from before I was born. Some are more recent. But all of them deserve mention as films that have something special to them. And that is why I select them for this category.

The first selection in this Category is :

Lonely Are The Brave, 1962
Starring Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walther Matthau, George Kennedy
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo
Based on the novel The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey
Produced by Edward Lewis
Directed by David Miller

In the aftermath of the 1960 historical spectacle that was SPARTACUS, the legendary actor Kirk Douglas found himself fascinated with an intimate story of a would-be cowboy who found he could not commit to modern times.


When Jack Burns, fancying himself a real oldtime cowboy, shows up in a small New Mexico town to visit an old buddy, he has to get himself arrested to be able to see his friend. But breaking out of jail he finds that not only the officers of the law pursue him, while he flees with his horse into the mountains.

Alone on his horse but armed with his oldfashioned values of honesty and cowboy chivalry, he sets himself on his way to the other side of the mountains where freedom lies across the border. But this freedom has a high price tag.

The various actors shine in their respective parts as practically everybody has a moment to show their stuff. Walther Matthau, George Kennedy, Gena Rowlands, even William Schallert play their parts to the hilt.

Dalton Trumbo wrote the screenplay in a single draft, based on the novel The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey. Jerry Goldsmith wrote a musical score that opened many doors for him. (Thanks to this film, he got to do bigger films like In Harm's Way and The Blue Max.)

Lonely Are The Brave was a title the Studio wanted for the film. Douglas would have preferred to have called it The Last Cowboy. But the film speaks for itself. Douglas still calls it his favourite role he ever played.