Fresh
Director Sydney Pollack has given a skilled, observant mounting as he carefully allows the man to grow in experience and knowhow.
Variety Staff, Variety
Jeremiah Johnson
Some say he's dead...some say he never will be.
1972 · 1h 48m · GP
Western
Directed by
Sydney Pollack
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Jeremiah Johnson
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Sydney Pollack Director
- Robert Redford as Jeremiah Johnson
- Will Geer as Bear Claw
- Delle Bolton as Swan
- Josh Albee as Caleb
- Joaquín Martínez as Paints His Shirt Red
- Allyn Ann McLerie as Crazy Woman
- Stefan Gierasch as Del Gue
- Richard Angarola as Chief Two-Tongues Lebeaux
- Paul Benedict as Reverend Lindquist
- Charles Tyner as Robidoux
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
95%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A flawed but immensely appealing film.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh
There are momoments of great beauty and terror and deeply earned pathos. There are as well such not-so-incidental pleasures as John Rubinstein's lovely and serviceable musical score, and a cast of excellent supporting actors.
Roger Greenspun, New York Times
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