Jeremiah Johnson (DVD)

General

Studio:	Warner Brothers
Series:	The Ultimate Westerns Collection
Release date:	September 1998
Actors:	Robert Redford
Dimensions:	192 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Age restriction:	PG
Categories:	DVD > Drama DVD > Feature Film
LSN:	XMM-TRW-U9M-3
Barcode:	7321900110617

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Jeremiah Johnson

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 | Review by: Micky B

A seriously-bearded Robert Redford plays the legendary title character in this outdoor Western adventure drama. The screenplay is an adaptation of a book with the interesting title of <i>Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson.</i> Returning from the Mexican war of 1846-48, a disgruntled Johnson seeks peace and refuge in the American West. Becoming a solitary mountain man in Utah (and liking it!) his first winter is a tough one – particularly when he has a brief run-in with Paints-his-Shirt-Red (Joachim Martinez;) a chief of the Crow Tribe, who comes across a near-starving Johnson while the latter is trying to fish by hand. Jeremiah goes on to have many adventures, that usually include Bear Claw Chris Lapp (Will Geer) – an eccentric old-timer, who mentors him; and/or Del Gue (Stefan Gierasch), a bald man whom the other two find buried up to his neck in the sand by the Indians. Also on his travels, he comes across a small cabin whose inhabitants were apparently attacked by Blackfoot warriors, leaving only a woman – commonly known as “The Crazy Woman” (Allison Ann McLerie and her uncommunicative son (whom Johnson calls “Caleb”) as survivors. Just as Johnson is about to enjoy the peaceful life he has so long sought after, his is pressed into service once again in the US Army Cavalry! The final scene is a wordless encounter with Paints-His-Shirt-Red, Johnson's avowed enemy since mid-film and the presumptive force behind the attacks on Johnson. Several hundred yards apart, Johnson reaches for his rifle for what he thinks will be a final duel, but Paints-His-Shirt-Red raises his arm, open-palmed, in a gesture of peace that Johnson returns, closing the film. Competent director Sidney Pollock has done more than simply a good job here. What dialogue there is is superb (occasional remarks are timed to have almost come out of an Asterix comic-book!) and the breathtaking Utah mountain scenery has to be seen to be believed! Recommended!

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