A decade ago, Kirk Douglas penned a piece reflecting on the very best of his movies over the decades.

The Hollywood star, who died at 103 in 2020, said that his best pictures included Seven Days in May, and his two directed by Stanley Kubrick: Paths of Glory and Spartacus.

But his favourite of all was 1962’s Lonely Are the Brave, which along with the Roman epic was penned by the previously blacklisted communist screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

Adapted from Edward Abbey’s 1956 novel The Brave…