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1972
Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 American Western film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character and Will Geer as "Bear Claw" Chris Lapp. It is based partly on the life of the legendary mountain man John Jeremiah Johnson, recounted in Raymond Thorp and Robert Bunker's book Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson and Vardis Fisher's 1965 novel Mountain Man.
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The early 1970s marked a transformative period for Hollywood Westerns, as the genre became a mirror for the cultural and political upheavals of the era. Amidst the fallout of the Vietnam War, civil rights struggles, and the assassinations of icons like Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, filmmakers began reimagining the mythic frontier not as a stage for moral clarity but as a battleground of existential cris…More
