Jeremiah Johnson (1/7) Movie CLIP - Sure That You Can Skin Grizz? (1972) HD 

Agreed, there's even a bunch of good stories and material from the actual mountain men to make movies about. Don't know why Hollywood never really took advantage of the Mountain Man theme, even back during the "Buckskin" movement in the 70's.

@@willrowell3218 I bet it was due to how easy it is to make a ‘Desert’ western as opposed to a ‘Mountain Man’ western. It’s easy to make a dusty town out of props in a studio and then drive out to Arizona to do the location bits, but ‘Mountain Man’ movies can only be filmed in the mountains and forests in difficult filming conditions. Since Westerns were so popular in their day they were probably more focused on quantity than quality.

@@spoopy9689 True, there was "North to Alaska" with The Duke, and "The Call Of The Wild" with Charlton Heston was kind of a western. I can't think of any more at the moment. TBH, I think there were more "Australian Westerns" made then Alaska Westerns.

I read a pretty interesting review of this film (I forget who wrote it) not too long ago. The author said that this is one of the few Westerns in which "the West" is actually a character in the film rather than just a backdrop.

Check out The Assasination of Jesse James if you haven’t already. A lot of it was filmed in Canada but the story is set in Missouri/Kansas. It’s my favorite western of all time.

Movie films ever made *

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GOAT!!!

Named my son Jeremiah because of this movie

People would be nuts to think this movie is under rated

@FlappableBean Thank you, now leave the basement and make your parents proud.

So tired of this kind of comment. You are not the first to call this movie a masterpiece. Have you ever read a review of this film? It has been recognized countless times since it's release.

@Time Code agreed or one that had such a spare script.

Na. Those that knew, knew. The that didn't don't matter.

@Rusty Climber Naughty man! (and it's only fuzz.. NOT Grizz, thank you very much! lol) :-) That's pretty funny lol. True..I don't believe I want to go tangle with Grizz like Robert Redford had to..I believe I will avoid that. Have a good day, thanks for the laugh lol

Don't know what you can do until you Have to🤠

@@john2sioch299 true story lol

Yes I lived the real reality TV. Off Appalachian trail and 6months Denali paddled Yukon fishing salmon Fighting Griz🤠💪

@@john2sioch299 Sounds awesome :-) Yeah, Grizz likes fish..I bet you really had to watch your 6 lol!

He was the Grandpa on the Waltons for most of that TV series long run. An iconic character actor.

God bless your papa 🙏🏻

We need more people like Papa

He reminds me of my grandpa too

He's still lives on in you :)

Yep seen that Wonderful movie

That wasn’t a costume either. Will Geer was big in the black powder community and he used his own accoutrements. He did an excellent job portraying Chris Lapp.

As you get older it becomes much clearer that Bear Claw was giving JJ a valuable education... that he only partly took with him. Had he appreciated what the true lesson was, his life would have been very different... but hunger does things to people... and I'm not talking about food. Dragging the bear into the hut was tactical too - you don't have much to do up there, but it's cold, and carrying a bear 3 miles takes a long god damned time. Easier to bait it into the cabin, kill it there. If it mauls you to death, so be it, at least you won't have to be cold that night. There's a reason he wore bear claws and was hunting in hides - harder to rip through if it nips you in the butt. Fooling with bears is all you have out there to bide the time as madness sets in. You can't be smart everyday, you get too tired of it. Eventually you always do something crazy. You can be crazy everyday though and you'll never get tired of it - better to just get good at it. You don't live up in the mountains because you care about other people - you go so you don't have to care about anyone, including yourself. Waving the gun around told Bear Claw that JJ was a soldier, but also that he was beholden to idiots. It meant he was used to untrustworthy firearms , untrustworthy or malicious fingers. It told Jeremiah that Bear Claw has got no issue aiming down a rifle at him... and killing him accidentally would be no big deal to him. This was as educational to JJ as it was informative to Bear Claw. When Jeremiah walks down the Crow later, he carries both guns out at the ready, a third at his hip. They let him aim it right at them and he killed 2 of them before they even started to resist. Why would savage men just let themselves be walked up and killed? Because they were willing to hide behind civility. Deep down they were not only cowards - but the creation of civilization, parasites living on it. When their time came they couldn't imagine being attacked so bravely by a wild man of principle. They let him aim before they even tried to move. JJ knew this would happen because once, when it happened to him, when he was living much the same way - he didn't care about his life either. For someone wanting to live free, he sure was ready to live under someone else's gun. Bear Claw made his intentions plain but Jeremiah was likely far more surprised at his own intentions being so middling. "You can't be afraid of killing a man in your territory, and in turn if you want to live - you can't let someone aim you down like this". "I've been hearing you for days, smelling you for 3.. you're leaving trails and not looking behind you". He would use these skills later to catch the Crow's. Simple lessons taught by a madman. What Bear Claw told Jeremiah that day by waving a gun in his face, "You aren't afraid of death, but you're afraid of stupidity, and you believe too heavily in manners and giving people the benefit of the doubt. Those are city rules. Look. I can wave this in your face - you don't even duck" . Bear Claw is JJ's future. He tried to warn him to keep his guard up - not just protecting what he cares about, but showing him clearly what he doesn't care about. Didn't care about dying, didn't care about being gunned down for being in someone else's territory enough to draw when the gun was in his face. I'm sure Jeremiah wondered to himself why stay so disciplined in this moment if I'm going to let him wave a gun in my face? Why did I let him do that? Why did I let him run a bear into me? Trigger discipline, and in this case muzzle discipline is important. They're great safety tips and they are excellent training everyone should get. But holy hell there's no safety tips for protecting yourself from a man who truly wants to aim at you. That's the real discipline - the reason you see people not practicing muzzle disciple or trigger discipline is because people want, natively, to kill eachother. The "civilized" ones will respect these rules. But the "good" ones you'll never know who they are until it's far too late to protect yourself and your loved ones. Every time he waved that gun in JJ's face he must have thought, "Why did I let him do that? Again? Again?". Bear Claw is no fool - regardless of his training, he can see how uncomfortable it makes JJ. He does it anyway. It should make him uncomfortable... and he shouldn't get caught making noise, and smelling, so easily that a man could draw a gun down on him. That's what he was trying to tell him. Out there that civilized ideology, those manners and rules... not just useless, they're coffin nails. Trigger discipline and Muzzle discipline are important things, they're great lessons... but the best lesson about them is you'll know everything you know about a person when they break those rules... and why. They are almost better when you teach it to someone and they willfully ignore it - because then you know what kind of savage they are. Ignorant, sadistic, or just plain careless --- all the same. You put power in people's hands and they ignore these ideas - you can tell how they'd rule, given the chance. Bear Claw understood power and was desperately trying to teach it. To put it another way, he got a lesson in what discipline really means. Part of that is, if you're gonna be a wildman - crazy's a better tool than civility. Later, when they meet again, Bear Claw sits far away from JJ's camp, eats lean, and leaves early. JJ never turns his back on him. Bear Claw by then is struggling, alone, and is becoming depraved and JJ knows it - and as much as that's a terrible thing, he's quite happy to see JJ's gotten wise to that. It's not just safety. It's being "seen". JJ never should have let Bear Claw walk up and wave his gun in his face - but it took JJ learning this lesson the hard way to really become a man of the wild. You can't be romantic up there. In the end though, they were the same, and that distance and edginess was what he'd tried to teach him here. Their distance in the end is symbolic of respect - not just of each other, but of the environment and situation they were in... and the fact that they truly had abandoned civility for freedom. There's no security here but what you can make for yourself. Only freedom. He laughed at him here, because he pitied him, because JJ was walking in his footsteps and he was trying to scare him off them. Too bad he was too hungry to hear it. Not for food - but to be free. As his hunger set in his need for security grew - and he retreated to civility with Bear Claw... and that would cause him many problems. You get older, and you start to see what this really was. You start staring down that madness everyday. Can't just pretend it all just doesn't exist. Gotta feed on it, like anything else, sipping it from a flask to see the world clearer. To know that someone who "accidentally" shoots you will apologize all day long and then smile themselves to sleep that night. The ignorant will remain ignorant of ignorance - calling it an accident so they can sleep. The truly malicious, they'll never smile, but their blood will run satisfyingly cold. Trigger discipline, muzzle discipline - they are the beginning of good self defense, but they're also a warning. Here Bear Claw breaks it to challenge the very principle. "If you're so afraid of my gun, why are you letting me do this?" They were the same - just 20 years apart. Not a lot of "new" stories in nature, just walking into old ones. "You sure you can skin a bear?" "Just as fast as you can catch them". ... first he waved a gun in his face, then the bear - just to remind him that it's human's that are the danger, stop being so cocky JJ. Great lesson there that JJ only remembered far, far too late.

JJ was in the Navy. Probably didn’t use a firearm. He either was discharged or deserted after he punched a commanding officer.

Oh shut up

Grandpa Walton made the best mountain man ever. Rest in peace Will Geer!

Yep, you're right about that!

Yes exactly my dad has passed away some ten years now but this scene still makes me smile his favorite saying was skin that one pilgrim and I'll get u another

@@monkey98981 Was Will your father?

@@waynewintermute3869 no

HAAA HAAA HAA.. Roger that !

Gotta survive the delivery though!

@@Arelak they didn't say who was the food 😉

Little known fact: Bear Claw Chris Lapp invented Door Dash.

Ever heard of Simon Kenton? One of the originals. Had so many run-ins with the Indian Tribes, that they actually came to respect him. I first read about him in Alan W Eckhart's, A Sorrow in Our Heart's (The Life of Tecumseh.)

lol, 150 years ago there were no antibiotics, nor any medical care _at all,_ really, so i guarantee you'd have felt differently in that actual time period. "the grass is always greener..." and all dat.

So true. I've done some serious backpacking in my day..........I'm 71 now, in places where you only have to deal with the wildlife.......no people, and I just always wanted to stay indefinitely.

Yeah...and not havin' some dang-blasted ol' Gov'mint breathin' down our necks, taxin' us half to death, or havin' us get licenses for drivin', huntin', and fishin'! They're way too over-reachin', don'tcha think? Y'know...the last time I checked, I thought we were in the "Land of the Free, & the Home of the Brave", not the "Land of the Fee, and the Home of the Slave"!!!

Wow Cleavon Little is in Vanishing Point. Great suggestion. I'll check that one out.

Badass. I too am from the mountains, and I too have a vintage Challenger.

Aww thanks for the compliment!

That's a real nice story. Thanks for sharing that.

thank you for telling us that story. I can really feel the sincerity in your story.

Great memories. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing. Brought a tear to my eye. Made me think of how much I miss my grandparents. We have similar memories. Was yours a Daisy lever action?

Gotta say I'm jealous, never having known my grandparents, and having mean sob's for parents. But hey, such is life. Thanks for the story, I feel better.

ski bum f

*sips monster*

Problem is - You are Broke.

Damn. Good for you man. You painted a real picture in just a few words and it sounds like you made yourself just a fine life.

Who needs money maddie...

JJ is a masterpiece. One of my go to movies.

Much different from Grandpa Zeb Walton.

That’s Utah for you.

Yes..The Walton's

il tink walther brennan,

Personally - I'm a Jack Elam Fan.

@@murraywestenskow2896 I, too, am a big fan of Jack Elam; he was so funny in the Twilight Zone episode - Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up?

@@murraywestenskow2896 My father-in-law was a big Jack Elam fan--always called him 'Fumy' for some reason. Wish I'd asked him why before he passed.

What's the other 3, just curious?

Have you read the book "mountIn man" by Vardis Fisher?? One of the two books this movie was made around.. some differences but if you like this movie... you will love this book also! Cheers!

HA! That's a good one.

I like to tell my compadre when two girls walk in, "Yours looks kind of ugly."

didn't bring him a grizz did ya?

Watch your top knot

@@cooperb8068 watch yourn.

Jeremiah Johnson made his way into the mountains... I really love the late Tim McIntire's simple soundtrack for this movie.

Jeremiah Johnson made his way into the mountains Bettin’ on forgettin’ all the troubles that he knew The trail was wide and narrow And the eagle or the sparrow Showed the path he was to follow as they flew. A mountain man’s a lonely man And he leaves a life behind It ought to have been different, but oftimes you will find, That the story doesn’t always go that way you had in mind. Jeremiah’s story was that kind. . . Jeremiah’s story was that kind.

Wow 💪💪💪💪💪💪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Have you seen Star Wars yet?

I wish I would’ve done that instead, I moved to Idaho three decades ago which is a good state but I’ve been to Alaska and it’s a beautiful place and one of the best places for Outdoor activity.

And can you skin grizz?

@@snookslayer4559 Probably a good thing if not. He'd want to move to outer space. 😄

Hell Yeah.

Mine to. LMFAO. On that line 😂

NOBODY ASK UR. OPINION

Nor yours...……….

+Rowdy Boy Your comment says two possible things about you: You're either funny as hell, the life of the party, etc. Or, if you were serious, one of the biggest dumbass dickheads I've ever seen. So. Judging by your choice of computer names, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and place my bet on the later.

Cool and Will Geer is from Frankfort Indiana. He participated in the Bi-Centennial Parade circa 1976. My father achieved his autograph the local Rotary Club. Dad said he was a little reluctant but signed the program. Great memories growing up and I miss you Mom And Dad.

@Long Range Rifle why are you just repeating exactly what he said?

It was one of the best lines in the movie. My favorite was,now boy are you sure you can skin Grizz?

Lucky bastard!

Tuna Can - Wonder how many know who Grandpa Walton is! 😁

Tuna Can Turned on my Japanese wife onto The Waltons, last week. She's been binging on that series ever since.

Tuna Can. Will Gear. Great actor. Glad you pointed this out. The Walton's was good television from 71 to 81. It should be run over and over in reruns for each generation.

My Grandmother (God rest her soul) called me every Sunday night and asked if I was watching The Walton’s.” I think she wanted me to grow up to be like John Boy. I didn’t quite make that. I think I turned out more like Grandpa Walton.

@@jh5869 g'night Bruceboi, er uh i mean Kaitlyn *snicker

That was a long time ago. I saw it in theater too.

Outlaw josey wales is a great flick......reminds me of my dad everytime i watch it.

Me as well on the Big Screen back in the Day.

I've watched this movie twenty plus and would watch it again.

Watch your top knot

Same quotes I use too lol!

Very well said. There have been so many great character actors who made what would otherwise be a mediocre movie so much better. Dub Taylor, Harry Carey Junior, and Pat Buttram were three of the best at this, but of course Strother was matchless.

@@Gunners_Mate_Guns Remember "Hard Times"? Charles Bronson and James Coburn. Strother Martin w/Coburn in the car and SM say's "lets get the cat". Character actors do make movies better. James Garner "Support Your Local Sheriff". The character actors were superb. We could list dozens of great movies with outstanding chracter actors.

Classic acting and good script writing. Made me laugh.

Amen Bro.

Watch your top knot

When deadly games of pride were played and living was mistakes not made. And the thought of the smell of the black powder smoke and the stand in the street at the turn of a joke Ah, the smell of the black powder smoke and the stand in the street at the turn of a joke.~

The fire scene was really funny for me personally since while learning to track from a friend who was a retired Border Patrolman part of the scenario was a burned out fire that had been covered with sand. One of my buddies put his hand in the sand and almost burned himself since the fire was from the previous night and started the scenario early the next morning. I said yep, fire was still hot, seen it right off. We had a great laugh over that!

K Derby...."Didn't put enough dirt down.....seen it right off"

And “sure, I’ve got a fine horse underneath me”

Is this in Idaho? I swear I read that Robert Redford lived in Idaho decades ago.

The Mountain Men is another great movie too. IMHO not as good as Jeremiah Johnson, but still very good.

The Best movie EVER..

Yeah still have one about 5 miles away

Sometimes called, the finger bowl

Okay, boomer

@Woody Last Name More like Woody Last *Lame* 😁

@Woody Last Name Nope, Xer here, chief

Yup I got the Hawkin bug and bit bad, after returning back to the States after a tour in Korea. Right at the time if this movie. My wife bought me a new 54 caliber Hawkin that Christmas. Took my first buck with it. Now several decades later I have killed more than half of my deer with black powder rifles. Just love the nostalgia of the old ways. Been doing rendezvous for over 36 years. Now recently retired, and moving to the back woods of Georgia. Love the back country and the Southern people.

Liver Eating Johnson..They Say He Is Still Up There..

Oh yes! That's an absolute must for you. Have some tissues handy!

ToddtheWadd I agree The Searchers .... best ever passionate acting and Brilliant Ford directing authentic humorous racist funny sad frustrating thrilling and more.

Jon, I was out there living that life Sort of .. . I was a Trapper when I owned my Business, and before that I taught Wilderness & Desert Survival Skills .. .

Jon, I was out there living that life Sort of .. . I was a Trapper when I owned my Business, and before that I taught Wilderness & Desert Survival Skills .. .

@@alvinglenn458 that must have been a great life boss

Politicians used to be called lords and kings, and they have always told people where to live. People had to get the kings permission to leave England for America

Amen brother. Sooner or later we'll take back what's ours.

He was a very talented director, he also directed a couple of my favorites, Absence of Malice and Three Days of the Condor.

Redford did a movie a couple years back with no words at all

the one where he's adrift at sea. 20 page script.

Yep. I'm a sucker for Visual Storytelling. This movie has it. Lawrence of Arabia has it. The Naked Prey. The original Arnold Schwarzenegger Conan the Barbarian. Doctor Zhivago. Mad Max Fury Road. The Revenant. Alpha. Much of the Original Star Wars trilogy. A good amount of The Force Awakens. Bits of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Ah good times with movies...also there's a little cartoon series called Samurai Jack whose storytelling was done mainly through visuals.

"Once Upon A Time in the West" was another.

Or you could watch blade runner 2049. Goes like 12 minutes without a single word said in one part

That was Paul Benedict, who was better known - and friendlier - as "Bentley" on "The Jeffersons"! He was a jerk in other movies like "Cocktail" and "It Could Happen To You".

I'm still mad at him.

Not quite sure about the ending! I presume the indian chief got him in the end or did they let him live?

I am mad as well.

@@roberthyde5272 I always thought they let him live and saw him as their equal