Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

Directed by

Sydney Pollack

Genre

drama film, Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 698 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man leaves civilization to live as a trapper in the Rocky Mountains. He learns survival skills from an experienced mountain man and adapts to the harsh wilderness.

slow-burnlonelycontemplativevisually starkquietly intensegrittymelancholicpeaceful

What happens

Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 American 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 1965 novel Mountain Man. The script was written by John Milius and Edward Anhalt; the film was shot at various locations in Redford's adopted home state of Utah. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival on May 7, 1972 and was later released on December 21, 1972, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received positive reviews from critics and was a box-office success, earning $44.7 million against a budget of $3.1 million, making it the 5th highest-grossing film of 1972. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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