Word: loners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Engines & Coolies. Chronicling the downfall of the Sand Pebbles, McKenna achieves a rare organic mixture of fast-moving story and far-ranging symbol. Holman proves to be a loner who hates the spit and polish of the Navy and the "game" of putting on a front for the Chinese. He tries to secede from the ship by taking refuge in caring for the one thing he knows and loves-engines. But when he begins to fix the Sand Pebble's decrepit coal-burning monstrosity-and, worse, agonizingly tries to teach a Chinese coolie how steam drives the pistons...
Tall (6 ft. 5 in.), lean and darkly handsome, George Lodge has a striking physical resemblance to his father. While Teddy was becoming an extraverted Kennedy, Lodge was a childhood loner. "I kept pigeons and spent nearly all my free time sailing and fiddling with my boat by myself." In his junior year at Harvard, Lodge married pert Nancy Kunhardt, hauled her off on a month-long honeymoon cruise up the Maine coast to Canada in an open sailboat. When a hurricane whirled by, they anchored in the lee of a desolate island and ate clams for three days...
...Hunt is about a war lover, a man for whom war is not hell but home. It is set in the bleak, blasted terrain of Korea a few months prior to the cease-fire at Panmunjom. Private Endore (John Saxon) is a broody loner. Each night he smudges up his face and like a blackface minstrel of death steals out behind the Chinese lines on a one-man patrol. With snakelike grace, he slithers up to an isolated and unwary outpost guard and slits his throat or plunges a knife into his heart. Then follows an infinitely more chilling ritual...
Bloody Denial. Newsboy, now 52, was a loner who never took on a partner, never played with the big-time syndicate hoods, their molls or their tailors. He never married, lived with his two sisters in a decrepit three-story house in his old neighborhood. He neither drank nor smoked, and attended church regularly...
Like Ride the High Country, Lonely Are the Brave is about a Westerner whom civilization has made an anachronism. The film is a western in spirit and setting but not in theme. Kirk Douglas plays a weatherbeaten cowpoke with mighty few cows left to poke. He is a loner, a maverick with a fence complex: he sees fences everywhere and hates them always. When he finds that an old pal is behind one-in jail-Douglas gets drunk, tangles with a barroom psycho, and manages to be thrown into the same hoosegow. He proposes to hacksaw some time...