Jeremiah Johnson (film)
Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 American Western film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character and Will Geer as "Bear Claw" Chris Lapp. It is based partly on the life of the legendary mountain man John Jeremiah Johnson, recounted in Raymond Thorp and Robert Bunker's book Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson and Vardis Fisher's 1965 novel Mountain Man.
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| Directed by | Sydney Pollack |
| Screenplay by | Edward Anhalt John Milius |
| Story by | Raymond W. Thorp Robert Bunker |
| Based on | Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher Crow Killer by Raymond W. Thorp and Robert Bunker |
| Produced by | Joe Wizan |
| Starring | Robert Redford Will Geer Allyn Ann McLerie Stefan Gierasch Charles Tyner Delle Bolton |
| Cinematography | Duke Callaghan |
| Edited by | Thomas Stanford |
| Music by | Tim McIntire John Rubinstein |
Production company | Sanford Productions (III) |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 108 minutes 116 minutes (w/ Overture and Intermission) |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | English Crow Salish |
| Budget | $3.1 million |
| Box office | $44.7 million |
The script was written by John Milius and Edward Anhalt; the film was shot at various locations in Redford's adopted home state of Utah. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.
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