Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 American Revisionist Western film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford. It is based partly on the life of the legendary mountain man John Jeremiah Johnson. The film was shot at various locations in Redford’s adopted home state of Utah. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.
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Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 American Revisionist Western film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character. 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. 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. Mexican War veteran Jeremiah Johnson takes up theLife 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 the frozen body of mountain man Hatchet Jack clutching a. 50- caliber Hawken rifle. 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. Johnson is pressed by a troop of U.S. Army Cavalry to lead a search party to save a stranded wagon train of settlers.
According to later dialogue, Johnson has discussed with commanding officer Lt. Mulvey that he is reluctant to help the search party because of his need to hunt buffalo to feed his family. The soldiers ignore Johnson’s advice and pressure him into leading them through a sacred Crow burial ground. While returning home by the same route, Johnson notices that the graves are now adorned with Swan’s blue trinkets; he rushes back to the cabin, where he finds that his family has been killed. Johnson sets off after the warriors who killed his family and attacks them, killing all but one, a heavy-set man who sings his death song when he realizes he cannot escape. Johnson leaves him alive and the survivor spreads the tale of the mountain man’s quest for revenge throughout the region, trapping Johnson in a feud with the Crow. His legend grows and the Crow come to respect him. Nearby the Crow have built a monument to Johnson’s bravery, periodically leaving trinket’s and talismans as tribute to Johnson. Johnson and Lapp meet for a final time when Johnson says, ‘No, I’m sorry, I truly wouldn’t. I’m a pilgrim, I simply wouldn’t’ Johnson later later realizes that heavy fighting alone in a vast and lonesome frontier has taken on Johnson.
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