starring Robert Redford with Will Geer , Allyn Ann McLerie Stefan Gierasch , Charles Tyner Delle Bolton
Tired of civilisation and armed with a smattering of advice on survival, ex-soldier Jeremiah Johnson sets off into the mountains to look for a different way of life. As winter sets in, so does despair. But his luck changes when he comes across Bear Claw - the personification of a mountain man. As Jeremiah Robert Redford has to fight Indians, rival trappers and the elements, in this unusual mid-1800s adventure story.
Screenplay by JOHN MILIUS , EDWARD ANHALT , based on the novel Mountain Man by VARDIS FISHER and the story Crow Killer by RAYMOND W. THORP , ROBERT BUNKER Produced by JOE WIZAN
Directed by SYDNEY POLLACK. Films: p 18