High Lonesome is a 1950 American Technicolor Western film written and directed by Alan Le May, who remains famous for writing the classic Western novels The Searchers and The Unforgiven as well as numerous screenplays. High Lonesome was Le May's only directorial credit. The picture stars John Drew Barrymore (billed as "John Barrymore, Jr."), features Chill Wills and Jack Elam and is set in the Big Bend country of West Texas.