Jeremiah Johnson is a movie directed by Sydney Pollack in 1972 and based on the book Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher, first published in 1965. 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.
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Book by Raymond W. Thorp, Robert Bunker
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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
1965
Pages
351
Book Rate
8.22
S: Goodreads
Book
Mountain Man
Author: Vardis Fisher
Country: USA
First published in: 1965
Length: 351 pages
Genre: Fiction
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“There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?”
NEIL JORDAN (Filmmaker)
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