Great Movie on tonite-Jeremiah Johnson

chud333 · Mar 9, 2013

One of my all time favorites on the tube tonite.
Will Geer, Robert Redford
Not a lot of dialogue but great scenery and story.
Always thought being a Mountain Man would have
been a rough road to hoe and every time i see this
movie just confirms this.
Besides the elements you had Natives to contend with
and the Bears, Wolves, etc....
These guys had to have some real hard bark on them.

You can't cheat the Mountain Pilgrim......

Chuck

red14 · Mar 9, 2013

chud333 said:
One of my all time favorites on the tube tonite.
Will Geer, Robert Redford
Not a lot of dialogue but great scenery and story.
Always thought being a Mountain Man would have
been a rough road to hoe and every time i see this
movie just confirms this.
Besides the elements you had Natives to contend with
and the Bears, Wolves, etc....
These guys had to have some real hard bark on them.

You can't cheat the Mountain Pilgrim......

Chuck

A truly great film.

''Elk don't know how many legs a Horse has.''

A10 · Mar 9, 2013

That is a good 'un. Best of the mountain man movies IMHO. As I understand it, the story is very loosely based on Liver Eating Johnson....

DR505 · Mar 9, 2013

Yes, read the book "Crow Killer", the REAL story of John "Liver Eating" Johnson. Good read.

Sprefix · Mar 9, 2013

Can you skin Grizz, Pilgrim??

Wyatt Burp · Mar 9, 2013

Kinda subtle, but I like the cadence, dialogue pattern, or whatever, I can't explain it but you know what i mean, of robert Redford in this. I don't know the rythmes of speech back then but think he wouldn't talk that way if dialoge coaches didn't consider it contemporary. And his learning process was great. Especially sleeping on those coals.

Ron H. · Mar 9, 2013

DR505 said:
Yes, read the book "Crow Killer", the REAL story of John "Liver Eating" Johnson. Good read.

Yes indeed. That guy had "bark" in places where most people don't even have places.

Semper Fi,

Ron H.

rwsmith · Mar 10, 2013

One of my favorite parts

On finding the frozen corpse of a mountain man.

"Whoever finds me can have my gun. It is a good gun. It killed the bear that killed me"

4Js · Mar 10, 2013

My favorite movie of all time. I've got the dialogue committed to memory. ,

If you get a good map of northern Wyoming and southern Montana, you'll find Crazy Woman Creek, the Big Belt and Blue Mountains, and a lot of the other landmarks mentioned, even though the film was shot in Utah.

The most haunting scene in the movie, and where Redford's acting ability really shines, is the scene in the cabin where Caleb and Swan were killed. Redford is just sitting there, yet you can tell the instant when his mind snaps.

Another is where the Indian sings his death song, and Jeremiah chooses not to reward him with a glorious death.

I'd like to see an accurate movie about Hugh Glass. 'Man in the Wilderness' was good, but the true story is just so much more incredible.

sw1834 · Mar 10, 2013

visited his grave.

I've visited on several occasions Jeremiah Johnsons Grave. He is buried beneath a bronze statue at Old Trail town in Cody Wyoming. It's just down the road from the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum. If any of you out there get a chance to come here, I guarantee you the museum in Cody has one of the largest and nicest displays of firearms in the country. Plan on spending a couple of days!!!

rgitz · Mar 10, 2013

As a young man growing up in New Jersey I saw Jeremiah Johnson in the movies; I went back five times to see it in the movies. Shortly after that I moved West. Either last year or the year before I went to the Cody Museum, entering the gun collection portion of the museum there was one display case that held, unbelievely Liver Eater Johnson's Hawkin and Bowie Knife, it blew me away. And really distracted me from concentrating on their overwhelming collection.

DR505 · Mar 10, 2013

Another must see is the Museum of the Mountain Man, in Pinedale, Wyoming. You can see Jim Bridger's rifle and a host of other displays. I bought the book Crow Killer there. The wussy "Jeremiah" Johnson as portrayed in the movie is a pale imitation of the real McCoy.

Malpasowildlifer · Mar 10, 2013

Yay! One of my favorites.

Remember the end? "And some say he's still out there"

chud333 · Mar 10, 2013

I can see from the responses that there are alot of fans of
this movie on here. Good info on books and sights to see
related to the Mountain Men of days past.
I watch Jeremiah Johnson every time it comes on and enjoy
it as every bit as much as the first time i saw it when it first
came out.

Chuck

CHMW · Mar 10, 2013

"Watch chur top knot...."

rwsmith · Mar 10, 2013

I liked that scene too

4Js said:
Another is where the Indian sings his death song, and Jeremiah chooses not to reward him with a glorious death.
.

I wonder what changed Jeremiah's mind about killing the last Indian. He didn't exactly look like the warrior type. It seemed that rather than try to fight Jeremiah he just accepted that he was going to be killed and sang his song. Some of those guys he didn't kill obviously went back and told everybody else what a bad*** Jeremiah was.

bluetopper · Mar 10, 2013

What time, what channel?

ladder13 · Mar 10, 2013

Isn't Honey Boo Boo on tonite?

Old 44 Guy · Mar 10, 2013

It's hard to believe that movie was made in 1972. 41 years ago.

chud333 · Mar 10, 2013

parisite said:
What time, what channel?

It was on saturday night on REELZ.....

Chuck

Great Movie on tonite-Jeremiah Johnson

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