Colorado, 1840. Jeremiah Johnson goes to live in the Rocky Mountains. During his explorations he meets a woman who has gone crazy and takes her son Caleb away with him, Three-Tongues Lebeau, the guide of the Flat Head Indians, offers his daughter Swan to Jeremiah. During an expedition, a platoon of soldiers he is guiding profanes the cemetery of the Crow Indians, who get their revenge by killing Swan and Caleb. Desperate, Jeremiah Johnson burns the house where the bodies of his loved ones are and attacks their assassins…
Biography
film director
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Irwin Pollack (Lafayette, IN, Usa. 1934 - Pacific Palisades, CA, Usa, 2008).
FILMOGRAFIA
The Slender Thread (La vita corre sul filo, 1965), This Property Is Condemned (Questa ragazza è di tutti, 1966), The Scalphunters (Joe Bass l’implacabile, 1967), Castle Keep (Ardenne ’44: un inferno, 1968), Jeremiah Johnson (Corvo Rosso non avrai il mio scalpo, 1972),The Way We Were (Come eravamo, 1973), The Yakuza (Yakuza, 1975), Three Days of the Condor (I tre giorni del condor, 1976), Bobby Deerfield (Un attimo, una vita, 1977), The Electric Horseman (Il cavaliere elettrico, 1979), Tootsie (id., 1982), Out of Africa (La mia Africa, 1985), Havana (id., 1990), The Firm (Il socio, 1993), The Interpreter (id., 2005), Sketches of Frank Gehry (Frank Gehry - Creatore di sogni, doc., 2005).
Cast
& Credits
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: John Milius, Edward Anhalt, David Rayfiel (non accreditato), dai romanzi Mountain Man di Vardis Fisher e Crow Killer di Raymond W. Thorp e Robert Bunker.
Director of photography: Duke Callaghan.
Music: Tim McIntire, John Rubinstein.
Art director: Ted Haworth.
Costume designer: Wesley Jeffries (non accreditato).
Editor: Thomas Stanford.
Sound: Charles Wilborn.
Cast and characters: Robert Redford (Jeremiah Johnson), Will Geer («Bear Claw» Chris Lapp), Delle Bolton (Swan), Josh Albee (Caleb), Joaquin Martinez («Paints-His-Shirt-Red»), Allyn Ann McLerie (donna pazza).
Producer: Joe Wizan.
Production company: Sanford Productions/Warner Bros.