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Jeremiah Johnson

  • 1972
  • GP
  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
37K
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Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.
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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 the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the e... Read allA mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.

  • Director
    • Sydney Pollack
  • Writers
    • Vardis Fisher
    • Raymond W. Thorp
    • Robert Bunker
  • Stars
    • Robert Redford
    • Will Geer
    • Delle Bolton
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    37K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    3,770
    862
    • Director
      • Sydney Pollack
    • Writers
      • Vardis Fisher
      • Raymond W. Thorp
      • Robert Bunker
    • Stars
      • Robert Redford
      • Will Geer
      • Delle Bolton
    • 171User reviews
    • 48Critic reviews
    • 75Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination total

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    Robert Redford
    Robert Redford
    • Jeremiah Johnson
    Will Geer
    Will Geer
    • Bear Claw
    Delle Bolton
    Delle Bolton
    • Swan
    Josh Albee
    Josh Albee
    • Caleb
    Joaquín Martínez
    Joaquín Martínez
    • Paints His Shirt Red
    • (as Joaquin Martinez)
    Allyn Ann McLerie
    Allyn Ann McLerie
    • Crazy Woman
    Stefan Gierasch
    Stefan Gierasch
    • Del Gue
    Richard Angarola
    Richard Angarola
    • Chief Two-Tongues Lebeaux
    Paul Benedict
    Paul Benedict
    • Reverend Lindquist
    Charles Tyner
    Charles Tyner
    • Robidoux
    Jack Colvin
    Jack Colvin
    • Lieutenant Mulvey
    Matt Clark
    Matt Clark
    • Qualen
    James M. George
    • Indian
    • (uncredited)
    Tanya Tucker
    Tanya Tucker
    • Qualen's Daughter
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Sydney Pollack
    • Writers
      • Vardis Fisher
      • Raymond W. Thorp
      • Robert Bunker
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    User reviews171

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    8thinker1691

    " You've done well to Keep your hair, when so many's after it "

    There are many films which personify the era of the Mountain Man. This is perhaps one of the best. The reason why it is at the top of the list, is due in part to director Sydney Pollack's selection of natural wonders, majestic scenery and simplistic storyline. The movie tells the story of Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford) a veteran of the Mexican American war who decides to journey into the High Alpine Rockies to become a Mountain Man. Based very loosely on the novel by Vardis Fisher, the hero seeks the life of a trapper which offers Solace, wild adventure, aboriginal encounters and a chance for legendary exploits. During the first years of his experience, Johnson is befriended and threatened by both Native Americans and crazed mountain veterans who teach him and endanger him as well. Among the best is 'Bear Claw, Chris Lapp' (Will Geer), 'Paints His Shirt Red' (Joaquin Martinez) and Del Gue (Stefan Gierasch). (Delle Bolton) plays Swan and Josh Albee) is Caleb who become part of an instant family. The film is quite picturesque in its beautiful seasonal settings and entertaining to anyone seeking a chapter in the bygone era of a vanished breed. ****
    7bkoganbing

    The Mountain Man Experience

    Jeremiah Johnson is the third of a troika of films about the mountain man experience, Clark Gable's Across The Wide Missouri and Charlton Heston's The Mountain Men being the other two. One of these days there will be a good biographical film of Kit Carson, the greatest of the lot.

    Robert Redford in the title role gets in on the last years of the mountain man experience. These guys trapped for the fur pelts living months and sometimes running into years before they came down to sell their goods. They lived alone among the Indians, hostile or not, and being that repeating rifles had not yet been invented the Indians had numerical and firepower advantage over them. They had to be one hardy breed of men as Redford and the others show.

    Initially Redford lucks out winning the respect of the Indians when he avenges a crazy woman's massacre of her family. The Indians hold the insane in respect even though Redford kills several Indians doing it. They even give him an Indian bride in Delle Bolton.

    His luck runs out when he reluctantly guides a party of soldiers through an Indian burial ground. After that they don't let up in trying to kill him and his loved ones.

    Being the noted conservationist that he is I'm sure Robert Redford loved shooting in the national parks which are preserved as they were in the time of Kit Carson, Jim Bridger and the rest. Some beautiful cinematography is another hallmark of Jeremiah Johnson.

    One of Robert Redford's best and most interesting characters he's brought to the big screen, this Jeremiah Johnson.
    10msinabottle

    What a movie should be

    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.
    bobsgrock

    To connect with nature and find your place in the world.

    Jeremiah Johnson is unlike most films of its kind, which is a subgenre of the adventure film that follows a lone mountain man disillusioned by society who escapes to the frontier in order to become one with nature and reinvigorate himself. Strange how women never do this. Anyways, Robert Redford is surprisingly effective as the quiet, tough and determined title character who remains focused on his ultimate goal of remaining aloof and alone from all connections to anyone.

    Unfortunately, he is bamboozled into a most peculiar family situation involving a mute son of a crazy pioneer woman and the daughter of a French-speaking Native American chief. In the end, what director Sydney Pollack is all about is showcasing how nature can indeed salve some of our pain and make us feel more comfortable with our situations. Nevertheless, true relationships with people cannot be substituted. Beautiful photography, strong performances and a most intriguing storyline all help create a very interesting film that is worth multiple views and considerable think time.
    marshm

    Liver Eatin' Johnson

    I have always considered this one of my favorite "rainy Saturday

    afternoon" movies. The scenery is wonderful, Redford does one of his

    best performances, the characters are colorful, and it is a wonderful

    story of the pioneer spirit. Then, a few years ago, a good friend told me he had the book about the

    real "Liver Eatin' Johnson", about whom this movie was made. He lent

    me the book to read - and I highly recommend it for anyone interested

    in a first- and second-hand story of the old west. The real story of Johnson is greatly removed from the movie, though

    there are many parts in common as well. Most notably absent is the

    fact that Johnson would remove and partially eat the liver (raw) of the

    Crow braves he would kill. This was done by Johnson to scare the Crow,

    who believed their soul would wander the earth forever if the body was

    not buried intact. Johnson was also known to have eaten meat from the

    leg of a Blackfoot indian, whose tribe had captured him to sell to the

    Crow. This incident, however, appears to have been more for survival,

    as Johnson had to travel for several days through snow on foot after

    escaping the Blackfoot. Johnson was a well traveled man, friend to more than the movie

    suggests, and finally died of old age in Los Angeles in 1899. His

    actual age is subject to dispute, but he was at least 75 yeard old.

    During his long life, he met up with many recognizable characters from

    the old west. I leave the names for you to discover in your reading -

    it is well worth the time!

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    • Trivia
      Based upon a real-life trapper named John Johnston, nicknamed "Crow Killer" and "Liver Eater Johnston" for his penchant for cutting out and eating the livers of Crow Indians he had killed (several Crows had murdered his wife and he swore vengeance against the entire tribe).
    • Goofs
      After burying her murdered family, Crazy Woman begins singing "Shall We Gather at the River" and Jeremiah joins in. This song was written by Robert Lowry in 1864 and first published in 1865, long after the time of the mountain men.
    • Quotes

      Del Gue: I ain't never seen 'em, but my common sense tells me the Andes is foothills, and the Alps is for children to climb! Keep good care of your hair! These here is God's finest scupturings! And there ain't no laws for the brave ones! And there ain't no asylums for the crazy ones! And there ain't no churches, except for this right here! And there ain't no priests excepting the birds. By God, I are a mountain man, and I'll live 'til an arrow or a bullet finds me. And then I'll leave my bones on this great map of the magnificent...

    • Alternate versions
      The Warner Bros. Pictures logo is plastered with the Saul Bass variant in the 1982 VHS, 1992 variant in the DVD and 1998 VHS. The former print also has the closing Saul Bass variant plastering the line art WB shield.
    • Connections
      Edited into La classe américaine (1993)
    • Soundtracks
      Jeremiah Johnson
      (uncredited)

      Written by John Rubinstein,Tim McIntire

      Sung by Tim McIntire

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    • Release date
      • December 21, 1972 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Crow
      • French
    • Also known as
      • La ley del talión
    • Filming locations
      • Zion National Park, Utah, USA
    • Production companies
      • Sanford Productions (III)
      • Warner Bros.
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    • Budget
      • $3,100,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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