Lonely Are the Brave (1962)

Kirk Douglas, Karl Swenson, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau

In order to free his best friend Paul Bondi from jail, cowboy Jack Burns gets himself imprisoned only to find out that Bondi does not want to escape. Thus Burns breaks out on his own and is afterwards being chased in the mountains by sheriff Johnson with a helicopter and jeeps. ?Volker Boehm