Underplayed Gems

Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

Jeremiah Johnson poster
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
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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.

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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)

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