Jeremiah Johnson
Sydney Pollack, 1972
Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson
Raymond W. Thorp, Robert Bunker, 1959
Jeremiah Johnson is a movie directed by Sydney Pollack in 1972 and based on the book Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson by Raymond W. Thorp and Robert Bunker, first published in 1959. The movie features Robert Redford, Will Geer, Allyn Ann McLerie, Stefan Gierasch, Matt Clark, Delle Bolton, and others.
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“The movie is better than the book”
But the book is worth reading.
The Movie is also based on
Book by Vardis Fisher
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Storyline
Mexican War veteran Jeremiah Johnson takes up the life of a mountain man, supporting himself in the Rocky Mountains as a trapper, but he becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.
Movie vs Book
Year
1972
Minutes
108
Movie Rate
7.60
Source: IMDb
Movie
Jeremiah Johnson
Director: Sydney Pollack
Country: USA
Year: 1972
Length: 1h48m
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Year
1959
Pages
192
Book Rate
7.82
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Book
Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson
Author: Raymond W. Thorp, Robert Bunker
Country: USA
First published in: 1959
Length: 192 pages
Genre: Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.”
MATTHEW VAUGHN (Filmmaker)
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