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Director:
David Miller
Stars:
Kirk Douglas,
Gena Rowlands,
Walter Matthau
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A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier. Written by
Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
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Goofs
When Jeremiah Johnson first finds Hatchet Jack's frozen body holding the .50 caliber Hawkens, the gun is held with the barrel tilted slightly upward. In subsequent shots, the angle of the rifle barrel changes several times to slightly different downward- or upward-tilting angles, never the same twice. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Narrator:
His name was Jeremiah Johnson, and they say he wanted to be a mountain man. The story goes that he was a man of proper wit and adventurous spirit, suited to the mountains. Nobody knows whereabouts he come from and don't seem to matter much. He was a young man and ghosty stories about the tall hills didn't scare him none. He was looking for a Hawken gun, .50 caliber or better. He settled for a .30, but damn, it was a genuine Hawken, and you couldn't go no better. Bought him a good ...
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Filmed in the snow-covered vastness of the Utah Rocky Mountains, Robert Redford plays well a deserter from the Mexican War who wages a bitter struggle against the elements and Indians in order to lead a life of solitude
He heads into the mountains, only to find that there is the wind that never seems to stop Sometimes he swears he is going insane while the storms that he has never seen screech booming with their thunder Around him, snow squalls that kill everything that is unprepared Jeremiah's first winter proves almost fatal because of his inexperience in coping with the harsh Rockies Fortunately, he meets a real mountain man seasoned to the ways of the wild Bear Claw takes Johnson in and shares his knowledge with him
Travelling the untamed wilderness, Jeremiah finds out that it is a land fit only for the savages, and he has seen what they are like But he has seen worse when he happens upon an Indian massacre of a settler's family or upon a bald man buried to his neck in sand by Blackfeet Indians And much worse after violating the Crow sacred burial ground while helping cavalry men find some lost settlers
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Filmed in the snow-covered vastness of the Utah Rocky Mountains, Robert Redford plays well a deserter from the Mexican War who wages a bitter struggle against the elements and Indians in order to lead a life of solitude
He heads into the mountains, only to find that there is the wind that never seems to stop Sometimes he swears he is going insane while the storms that he has never seen screech booming with their thunder Around him, snow squalls that kill everything that is unprepared Jeremiah's first winter proves almost fatal because of his inexperience in coping with the harsh Rockies Fortunately, he meets a real mountain man seasoned to the ways of the wild Bear Claw takes Johnson in and shares his knowledge with him
Travelling the untamed wilderness, Jeremiah finds out that it is a land fit only for the savages, and he has seen what they are like But he has seen worse when he happens upon an Indian massacre of a settler's family or upon a bald man buried to his neck in sand by Blackfeet Indians And much worse after violating the Crow sacred burial ground while helping cavalry men find some lost settlers