Jeremiah Johnson

About Jeremiah Johnson

While slowly adapting to the grueling life of a mountain man in the Rocky Mountains, Jeremiah Johnson encounters the Crow and Flathead tribes as well as hunters, trappers and settlers, all of whom call these mountains home.

Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 western film directed by Sydney Pollack. Its themes are snow, cabin, rocky mountains, and fur trapper.

Robert Redford stars as Jeremiah Johnson, Will Geer as Bear Claw, Delle Bolton as Swan, and Josh Albee as Caleb. It runs 108 minutes and was released in September 1972.

The screenplay is by Edward Anhalt and John Milius. The film began as a novel. In the United States it streams on Howdy Amazon Channel.

The Revenant, Dances with Wolves, and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes make useful companions to Jeremiah Johnson, all filed under 19th century and survival. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 740 votes and it carries a PG rating.