I think the show itself gives up the name and meaning for the title. I have read that Kirk never liked the title and really could not even understand the title. I have only one disagreement with Kirk Douglas: the title. It is a story of real life, real dreams of men and real sacrifices our women have made for their love. This was, is, and always will be a great movie for me.
Whiskey's fate is, in Trumbo's script, the destiny of the main character together their stories become one. The wonderful palomino "Whisky" steals every scene and, ultimately, viewer's hearts as he had already won the loyalty and love of the brave cowboy. All these things are poison to real cowboys. The sheriff refers to the cowboy's stunning climb over a high mountain ridge with his horse to escape the law, but the phrase also describes how cowboys can no longer exist in a world now dominated by helicopters, autos, highways and trucks, radio communications, and most damning of all systems of identification. Real cowboys "cannot make it" as Walter Mathou's character, the sheriff in pursuit, says it. It's a cowboy story it's a horse story it's a sad story too. It is the work of a great screen writer, Dalton Trumbo, whose vision and focus provides the movie's artistic core. This spirited film in which Kirk Douglas stars, his own favorite among many in which he did his fine work, is unique. It was Douglas himself who read Abbey's novel, optioned the rights, and shepherded the film through production. Perhaps Kirk Douglas's finest performance, and his own favorite. His misguided attempt to help out an old pal makes him the subject of an extended manhunt. One of the last open-range cowboys clashes against the 20th Century, finding the range increasingly walled off and times passing him by.
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