Jeremiah Johnson / [presented by] Warner Bros. ; screenplay by John Milius and Edward Anhalt ; produced by Joe Wizan ; directed by Sydney Pollack.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 73247 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publication details: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Brothers : Warner Home Video (distributor), ©2007.Edition: Widescreen and full screenDescription: 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 1419817000
- 9781419817007
- Director of photography, Duke Callaghan ; editor, Thomas Stanford ; music, John Rubinstein, Tim McIntire.
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Main Library | DVD | WESTERN JEREMIAH | Available | 33111009928223 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Years before Kevin Costner danced with wolves, Robert Redford headed to the mountains to escape civilization in Sydney Pollack's wilderness western. Around 1850, ex-soldier Johnson (Redford) decides that he would rather live alone as a mountain man in Colorado than deal with society's constraints. After a series of setbacks, he meets grizzled mountain veteran Bear Claws (Will Geer), who teaches him how to survive. Jeremiah strives to live as peaceably as possible in the rugged environment, trading with the native Crow tribe, adopting a boy (Josh Albee) after his family is massacred, and even marrying the daughter (Delle Bolton) of a Flathead chief in order to avoid confrontation. He settles into a mountain home with his family, but the U.S. cavalry, complete with a puritanical Reverend, interrupt the idyll to compel Jeremiah to lead them over the mountains and through a Crow burial ground to rescue white settlers. After the Crow kill his family in retaliation, Jeremiah's frenzied moment of payback precipitates a long-running vendetta, turning him into a legendary Indian killer at the expense of his original ideals, on the way to a final moment of grace. Spectacularly shot on location in Utah, the film captures both the appeal and the challenge of the landscape that Jeremiah chooses over civilization. With an unglamorous performance by Redford and a story that questioned white colonialism while mythologizing the man of nature, Jeremiah Johnson appealed to its 1972 audience and became one of the biggest hits of the year. Wavering between heroicizing Jeremiah for surviving and damning him for killing, Jeremiah Johnson took its place among the Vietnam-era cycle of critical westerns, like Arthur Penn's Little Big Man (1970) and Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), that condemned civilization for corrupting the wilderness and preventing individuals from going pacifistically native. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
DVD; Dolby Digital surround 5.1.
Closed-captioned. Dialogue in English and French with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
Robert Redford, Will Geer, Stefan Gierasch, Allyn Ann McLerie, Charles Tyner, Delle Bolton.
Director of photography, Duke Callaghan ; editor, Thomas Stanford ; music, John Rubinstein, Tim McIntire.
Based on the novel: Mountain man / by Vardis Fisher, and the story: Crow killer / by Raymond W. Thorp and Robert Bunker.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1972.
MPAA rating: PG.
Jeremiah Johnson, disillusioned by society, sets out to be a mountain man in the mid-1800s.
Special features: Featurette: The saga of Jeremiah Johnson; production notes; theatrical trailer.