Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

Note des utilisateurs:

7.5/10   

Réalisateur:

Sydney Pollack

Writers:

Vardis Fisher (novel)
Raymond W. Thorp (story) ...

Release Date:

10 septembre 1972 (Sweden)

Genre:

Drame | Western

Accroche:

A man of peace driven wild!

Plot:

A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta...

Plot Keywords:

Mountain | Trapper | Mountain Man | Rocky Mountains | Hermit

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Avis des utilisateurs:

What a movie should be

Ensemble

Robert Redford	...	Jeremiah Johnson
Will Geer	...	Bear Claw
Delle Bolton	...	Swan
Josh Albee	...	Caleb
Joaquín Martínez	...	Paints His Shirt Red (as Joaquin Martinez)
Allyn Ann McLerie	...	Crazy Woman
Stefan Gierasch	...	Del Gue
Richard Angarola	...	Chief Two-Tongues Lebeaux
Paul Benedict	...	Reverend Lindquist
Charles Tyner	...	Robidoux
Jack Colvin	...	Lieutenant Mulvey
Matt Clark	...	Qualen

Autre(s) titre(s):

Crow Killer (USA) (working title)
Liver Eatin' Johnson (USA) (original script title)
Jeremiah Johnson (France) [fr]

Durée:

108 min | 116 min (long version)

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Son:

70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Mono (35 mm prints) | Dolby Digital

Classification:

UK:PG | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | Canada:PG

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Alpine Loop, Utah, USA

Company:

Sanford Productions (III)

Anecdotes:

Was originally to star Clint Eastwood in the title role and to be directed by Sam Peckinpah.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Jeremiah shoots his .50 caliber Hawkin at an elk, the recoil knocks him down, but when he is attacking the Indians that killed his family, he fires it one handed from the hip while walking and there's no recoil.

Guillemet:

[first lines]
Narrator: His name was Jeremiah Johnson, and they say he wanted to be a mountain man. The story goes that he was a man of proper wit and adventurous spirit, suited to the mountains. Nobody knows whereabouts he come from and don't seem to matter much. He was a young man and ghosty stories about the tall hills didn't scare him none...

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Deadly Bees (#10.5)" (1998)

What a movie should be

Jeremiah Johnson is a starkly simple story well told. It is the journey of a man who seeks to re-make himself. Johnson becomes disillusioned, like Thoreau and even Ulysses S. Grant, by the Mexican War and deserts to become a mountain man. There he finds the Rockies starkly beautiful and completely without mercy for him or anyone else. Will Geer plays the older trapper who teaches the 'Pilgrim,' a very solid performance by Redford, how to survive. The film's treatments of Whites and Native Americans is profoundly even handed, and Milious's fingerprints are noteworthy in the robust and calculated course of the narrative.