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Vardis Fisher (novel)
Raymond W. Thorp (story) ...
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Release Date:
10 September 1972 (Sweden) more
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A man of peace driven wild! more
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A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta... more | add synopsis
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1 win & 1 nomination more
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Also Known As:
Crow Killer (USA) (working title)
Liver Eatin' Johnson (USA) (original script title)
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Runtime:
108 min | 116 min (long version)
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2.20 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Mono (35 mm prints) | Dolby Digital
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Liver Eatin' Johnston's wife (who was pregnant at the time) was actually killed by a random raiding party of Blackfeet not in revenge for a violation of their burial grounds. She was killed in the Spring while Johnston was off trapping and he didn't return to find her body until several months later. He identified the band that had killed her because he recognized a Tennessee rifle he had given her in the possession of a Crow warrior. Also, rather than isolated incidents as shown in the movie, Johnston often recruited other mountain men as well as Indians (particularly Flatheads) to help him with his vendetta. The part about the warriors sent to kill him and told not to return without his scalp was true. more
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Continuity: When Jeremiah shoots his .50 caliber Hawkin at an elk, the recoil knocks him down, but when he is attacking the Indians that killed his family, he fires it one handed from the hip while walking and there's no recoil. more
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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...
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21 out of 33 people found the following comment useful.
What a movie should be, 21 November 2000
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Author: msinabottle from Denver, Colorado

Jeremiah Johnson is a starkly simple story well told. It is the journey of a man who seeks to re-make himself. Johnson becomes disillusioned, like Thoreau and even Ulysses S. Grant, by the Mexican War and deserts to become a mountain man. There he finds the Rockies starkly beautiful and completely without mercy for him or anyone else. Will Geer plays the older trapper who teaches the 'Pilgrim,' a very solid performance by Redford, how to survive. The film's treatments of Whites and Native Americans is profoundly even handed, and Milious's fingerprints are noteworthy in the robust and calculated course of the narrative.

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