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Jeremiah Johnson

year 1972decade 70sdirector Sydney Pollackgenre Western
host Bill Simmonshost Chris Ryanguest Bill’s Dadproducer Craig Horlbeck
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The film

Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

Directed by Sydney Pollack · Western

108 minutes

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Cast

Selected cast credits · Film reference

Robert Redford Jeremiah Johnson
Will Geer Bear Claw
Josh Albee Caleb
Joaquín Martínez Paints His Shirt Red
Allyn Ann McLerie the crazy woman
Stefan Gierasch Del Gue
Richard Angarola Chief Two-Tongues Lebeaux
Paul Benedict the Reverend
Charles Tyner Robidoux
Jack Colvin Lieutenant Mulvey
Matt Clark Qualen

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1:04:43

Casting What-Ifs

Redford

Redford

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1:06:44

Recasting Couch

Harrison Ford, Daniel Day-Lewis, Russell Crowe, Brad Pitt, and several current actors are considered by decade.

Harrison Ford, Daniel Day-Lewis, Russell Crowe, Brad Pitt, and several current actors are considered by decade.

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1:11:04

Half-Assed Internet Research

Utah locations, Pollack’s financial commitment, severe cold, Del Gue’s behavior, Cannes premiere, and illnesses

Utah locations, Pollack’s financial commitment, severe cold, Del Gue’s behavior, Cannes premiere, and illnesses

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  • The film reportedly used nearly one hundred Utah locations. — Bill Simmons
  • Sydney Pollack reportedly mortgaged his home when the production was running out of money. — Bill Simmons
  • The cold reportedly made second takes difficult and left the crew miserable. — Bill Simmons
  • Del talking to himself is explained as a tactic to be regarded as touched and left alone. — Bill Simmons
  • The film was the first Western accepted at Cannes. — Bill Simmons
  • Redford listed cases of frostbite, strep throat, and pneumonia during production. — Bill Simmons
  • The filmmakers accepted less money in order to shoot in Utah rather than relocate.
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1:19:09

Picking Nits

Food, burial-ground communication and timing, leaving the family, Crow tactics, and Jeremiah joining the rescue

Food, burial-ground communication and timing, leaving the family, Crow tactics, and Jeremiah joining the rescue

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  • The group asks why Jeremiah does not eat his dead horse when food is scarce.
  • Jeremiah is said to need a firmer way to refuse crossing the burial ground. — Chris Ryan
  • Leaving Woman and the boy alone after seeing an earlier massacre is criticized.
  • The timing of finding Swan’s trinket and returning from the rescue is questioned.
  • The Crow fighters repeatedly attacking one-on-one without changing tactics are questioned. — Bill Simmons
  • Jeremiah joining the cavalry rescue despite rejecting religion is questioned and defended as lingering soldierly duty.
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1:25:28

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Jeremiah’s war past, the chief’s retaliation, Bear Claw’s romantic history, and a possible death-vision ending

Jeremiah’s war past, the chief’s retaliation, Bear Claw’s romantic history, and a possible death-vision ending

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  • Whether Jeremiah deserted the Mexican War is treated as unresolved. — Bill Simmons
  • The chief’s decision to kill Jeremiah’s family despite their earlier friendship is questioned. — Bill’s Dad
  • Bear Claw’s romantic and sexual history is questioned. — Bill Simmons
  • The group asks whether Jeremiah dies before the final montage and whether the ending is a fever dream or legend. — Bill Simmons
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1:29:48

Best Double Feature

Cast Away
Jeremiah Johnson
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Searchers
The Last of the Mohicans
The Revenant
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  • An Eastwood Western and The Searchers are proposed with Jeremiah Johnson as a three-film program. — Bill Simmons
  • The Revenant is proposed as a modern frontier-survival pairing. — Bill Simmons
  • The Last of the Mohicans is proposed as another pairing. — Bill Simmons
  • Cast Away is later selected for a double feature about solitary survival.
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