Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 American Revisionist Western film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character and Will Geer as "Bear Claw" Chris Lapp. It is based partly on the life of the legendary mountain man John Jeremiah Johnson, recounted in Raymond Thorp and Robert Bunker's book Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson and Vardis Fisher's novel Mountain Man.
Plot
Mexican War veteran Jeremiah Johnson takes up the life of a mountain man, supporting himself in the Rocky Mountains as a trapper. His first winter in mountain country is difficult, and he has a run-in with Paints-His-Shirt-Red, a chief of the Crow tribe. He starts out with a .30-caliber Hawken percussion rifle, which he uses as his main rifle until he finds
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| author | David Rayfiel Edward Anhalt John Milius |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Colorado |
| director | Sydney Pollack |
| editor | Thomas Stanford |
| genre | drama saga western |
| keywords | attack blackfoot burial ground bury commanding officer confederated salish and kootenai tribes of the flathead nation crow crow nation crow tribe fight flathead frozen body grizzly bear hawken rifle kill learn meet mexican war mexican–american war mountain country mountain man new home rock rocky mountains sacred search party stolen goods strand trap trapper u.s. army cavalry united states army wagon train war veteran warrior wed |
| musicBy | Tim McIntire |
| producer | Joe Wizan |
| productionCompany | Sanford Productions |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| recordedAt | Utah |
| theme | survival |