David Miller helmed screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's mournful masterpiece, a hymn to rugged individualism and freedom slowly being strangled to death by voracious urban development. Kirk Douglas, a Korean War vet, is a footloose cowboy who lives most of his life under the stars, going from job to job, and not averse to cutting his way through barbed-wire fences when they get in his way. His uncompromising spirit is severely challenged when he breaks out of jail after a minor offense, and the entire county's police force tries to recapture him before he can leave the territory.

GENRE: Drama, Western
MPAA RATING: No Rating
RUN TIME: 1h 47m
RELEASE DATE: May 24, 1962
STARRING: Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, Carroll O'Connor, George Kennedy
DIRECTOR(S): David Miller
PRODUCER(S): Edward Lewis
WRITER(S): Dalton Trumbo
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