A pair of grizzled frontiersmen fight indians, guzzle liquor, and steal squaws in their search for a legendary valley 'so full of beaver that they jump right into your traps' in this fanciful adventure.
A movie about MEN ??? As in manly men ? No man buns or mani-pedi's ? With guns and killing the peaceful indigenous people ? 😱😱😱😱 And the actor was the president of the NRA !!! Yeah, I'd love to watch a remastered version.
Excellent scenery, acting, script all rolled into one. Heston and Keith played off of each other like long time partners. I purchased the video so I can watch it again and again. And I have.
This film deserved better. It's well filmed on fantastic locations throughout Wyoming. The two leads are veteran actors: one an Oscar-winner who made huge epics; the other a star of both film and TV. Also. Heston and Keith worked together on "Arrowhead" three decades earlier. Heston claimed that the film executives butchered the story (his son Frasier wrote the screenplay) resulting in a movie that critics hated when first released.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
The "rendezvous" scenes were filmed at an ACTUAL buckskinners' rondy. Chuck and Frasier even took part in an "egg shoot"; the target was a bunch of eggs hung from a frame. If you missed the egg, you had to EAT it, and not all of them were FRESH! Chuck MISSED. AND ate the egg. The director TRIED to tell the participants what he wanted them to do, then decided that they were having so much fun, he just let them have at it and filmed EVERYTHING
Gotta get a copy of this! This is my most favorite period of American history - before the west west was settled, when the Indian nations west of the Mississippi still lived as they had for hundreds of years. The buffalo were still there, so much beauty to roam as one pleased - or at least as one was willing to risk hostiles, grizzlies, severe cold, terrible winters, possible starvation, etc. "Jeremiah Johnson" is a great movie about the period. It was a time for brave men of untold wanderlust!
When the millennial Cancel culturists at STARZ give it 1 star and the Hollyweird critics pan it, it translates to: HIGHLY enjoyable, eminently watchable and superbly entertaining,.
Charlton Heston was supposed to be Jeremiah Johnson eight years earlier but couldn't agree to a contract because he was already booked and the studio wasn't willing to wait on him so they hired Robert Redford.
Jeremiah Johnson would've been different with Heston instead of Redford, even with the same producers and directors, although I would've loved to seen Heston in a few more movies playing Mountain Men, I'll stick with Redford as Jeremiah Johnson.
One of my most favorite movies Charlton Heston Brian Keith my next movie is Jeremiah Johnson these are my two most favorite I can watch these movies anytime
Whatever people think of this movie, it is one of VERY few that makes any attempt to capture an extremely important period of American History. It showcases Heston and Keith in a somewhat more intimate view than other movies they made. Yes, this was before the time Hollywood had the good sense to feature Native Americans in the roles, The coarse speech was probably fairly correct.The attitudes may be unappealing to some but I see no difference about that in other movies about the general period. I love this movie. It doesn't need to compete for the approval of anyone. People who want to see it probably can't rent it unless Netflix has it. If you don't care for Heston and aren't into history, leave it be.(PS show me a movie that doesn't take liberties with history for the sake of story effect, and I'll show you an empty shelf.)
Spot on. I love this movie. My favorite line comes from Brian Keith "GOD DAMN IT I AINT NEVER BEEN LOST, A MIGHT CONFUSED FOR A MONTH OR TWO BUT I AINT NEVER BEEN LOST"
@@countrycraftsman5110 Fearsome confused. I have almost all the lines memorized. My late hubby and I watched it at least twice a month, He's gone 14 years now. He looked the part of a mountain man himself.
@@joyceclemons3916 thank you for the correction. I like that much better. Sorry about the loss of your loved one. I am sure he was a good man if he liked mountain men.
Please check out Fraser Clarke Heston's Treasure Island (1990). It's a truly wonderful and faithful adaptation that will surprise you at how good it is.
This is the re-telling of the story of John Colter, who's ancestors had moved from Ireland in 1700, in 1806 who was the first white man to transverse the Yellowstone and see the features there. He was captured by the Piegan Blackfeet and forced to run naked from several warriors who pursued him, he escaped by hiding in a beaver lodge after killing one of the Blackfoot warriors with a broken spear and walked back hundreds of miles to Emanuel Lisa's Fort Raymond at the confluence of the Big Horn and Yellowstone rivers in modern day Montana. He returned to civilization and it killed him, he died of jaundice in 1812 after having survived all that the Blackfeet and the Mountains could throw at him.
This is not the story of John Colter. Some of the events in this movie are taken from historical accounts , many of them from other people such as Davie Jackson, but this is not based on Colter.
Worked in the Gros Ventre the summer this movie was made.Many scenes shot right off of Hwy 26/287.From Moran Junction over Togwotee Pass to Falls Campground area.Heston hung out in Jackson Hole while Keith hit the Bars in Dubois Wyoming.Watch this for the scenery.Put aside any de-constructive political correctness and virtue signaling; this is a loose portrait of men out in the middle of nowhere with 360 degree danger from Indians, animals, and weather.The French originally allied /armed the Black Foot Tribe, much to the detriment of everyone else.The movie is set when silk hats are all the fashion rage in Europe.The demand for beaver pelts has dropped like a piano off a ten story building roof.
these old time actors made kool movies , todays movies are god awful , this movie encouraged me to get a flintlock , which is my favorite hunting rifle
@@u.s.paratroops4633 There were a few such as Fearsome confused for a month or two, but I ain’t been lost. Or of course there’s something out there. There’s mule deer, elk, etc. But not like Jeremiah Johnson.
Chuck kills about half the tribe that's kidnapped her, but Brian Keith dies during the fight. Then Chuck breaks away and confronts the warrior who's taken Running Moon. They have a big fight, Chuck gets hurt bad but Running Moon saves his butt by finishing off the guy he's fighting; so they end up together again. True love wins out in the end.
I have only found this available in a full screen format on DVD---although it was filmed in a widescreen ratio---that is the worst "butchery" of all to do to a film. Does anyone know of a widescreen version preserving the aspect ratio in which it was actually filmed?
Let's face it, the movie was nothing spectacular but if you like the subject of the mountaineers of the pre 1850 west, you dig this movie. I know several of the extras in the Rendezvous scenes. They all did it just for fun, I dont think they were even paid. The constant diminutive use of the N word is actually authentic to the period as are the sentiments of whites regarding Native Americans. Contrary to modern myth Native Americans weren't all noble children of the wilderness. Many were involved in theft for profit, slaughtering, enslaving and selling each other to the Spanish Many were just plain brutal and predatory. Many were also very noble and forthright in their dealings, only to be betrayed later. History is not a marxist trope. It's far more complicated. But, I digress. It's a fun movie, I reccomend it.
Not a bad effort tho not a patch on jerimiah johnson, bad hair piece, having said that Heston is a true Legend and way way above most actors-----Ben Hur awesame indeedy and never to be repeated,---x
I think I liked him best in Planet of the Apes; especially the part where he sees his shipmate planting a little American flag on the lakeshore and just laughs his ass off...
Ahhh, so this is where Kevin Costner got the steel. John Barry, on melodics.... I had no idea this was the impotist for Dances with Wolves, circa 1990. Just my thoughts...
Loved this movie is a child and young adult , Haven't watched it for some years because God's name is used as a swear word and jesus's name is cursed being taken in vain throughout the movie I wish I could find a version of it where the cursing has been muted or changed and would love to see the uncut version
Jeremiah Johnson is based on a real guy, Liver Eatin' Johnson. But after the Hollywood weenies watered the story down his character is barely fit to wipe Charlton Heston's azz. Chuck could ride, shoot and fight before pretty boy Redford was even born. Bob used a brand new Thompson Center Hawken in his movie. Chuck used his own rifle in the Mountain Men. If you think this is bullshite, don't bother watching El Cid, The Big Country, The War Lord, 55 days in Peking, The 10 Commandments, etc, etc.
