Jeremiah Johnson (film)
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| Directed by | Sydney Pollack |
| Produced by | Joe Wizan |
| Screenplay by |
Edward Anhalt John Milius |
| Story by | Raymond W. Thorp Robert Bunker |
| Based on |
Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher Crow Killer by Raymond W. Thorp and Robert Bunker |
| Starring |
Robert Redford Will Geer |
| Music by |
Tim McIntire John Rubinstein |
| Cinematography | Duke Callaghan |
| Edited by | Thomas Stanford |
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Production
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Sanford Productions (III)
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Release date
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Running time
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108 minutes 116 minutes (w/ Overture & Intermission) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3.1 million |
| Box office | $44,693,786 |
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 said to have been based partly on the life of the legendary mountain man Liver-Eating Johnson, based on Raymond Thorp and Robert Bunker's book Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson and Vardis Fisher's Mountain Man.
The script was 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.
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. Sometime later, he finds the frozen body of mountain man Hatchet Jack clutching a .50 caliber Hawken. Jack's will gives his rifle to the man who finds his corpse. With his new rifle, Johnson inadvertently disrupts the grizzly bear hunt of the elderly and eccentric Chris Lapp, nicknamed 'Bear Claw', who mentors him on living in the high country. After a brush with Crow Indians, including Lapp's friend Paints-His-Shirt-Red, and learning the skills required to survive, Johnson sets off on his own.
He comes across a cabin whose inhabitants were apparently attacked by Blackfoot warriors, leaving only a woman and her uncommunicative son alive. The woman, maddened by grief, forces Johnson to adopt her son. He and the boy, whom Johnson dubs "Caleb", come across Del Gue, a mountain man who has been robbed by the Blackfeet, who have buried him to his neck in sand and stuffed feathers up his nose. Gue persuades Johnson to help recover his stolen goods, but Johnson counsels against violence when they find the Blackfoot camp.
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