Drama / western, USA, 1962, 107 min.



Life can never cage a man like this!
Jack Burns, an itinerant cowboy whose individualism clashes with modern-day life, rides down from the mountains when he learns that his friend Paul Bondi has been jailed for helping illegal immigrants across the Mexican border. Hoping to help Bondi escape, Burns deliberately becomes involved in a barroom brawl and is thrown into the same jail, but Bondi prefers to serve his sentence rather than spend the rest of his life on the run. So Burns breaks out alone, gets food and ammunition from Bondi's wife, Jerri, with whom he has been romantically involved, and heads for the hills with his horse, Whisky. The local sheriff, a kindly and philosophic man, organizes a posse of seven deputies equipped with a jeep and a helicopter, while Burns, refusing to abandon his horse though he would make better time on foot, slowly climbs a steep mountainside. When the helicopter spots him, he shoots it down and heads for the Mexican border. Crossing a highway at night, Whisky balks at the oncoming traffic, and both the horse and Burns are hit by a diesel truck. The sheriff arrives, shoots the injured animal to end its misery, and quietly speaks the lonely cowboy's epitaph.
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Režie: David Miller
Herci: Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlandsová, Walter Matthau, Michael Kane, Carroll O'Connor, více...

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