Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Fabulous Movie Review©

Jeremiah Johnson
Released: 1972
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Length: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Adventure, Western
Starring: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton, Josh Albee, Joaquín Martínez
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Producer: Joe Wizan
Writer: David Rayfiel, Edward Anhalt, John Milius, Raymond W. Thorp, Robert Bunker, Vardis Fisher
Loosely based on a real mountain man named Jeremiah Johnson, I liked this movie a lot. The scenery, story, fighting and revenge were all well done. Hallmarks of a classic western, although I wouldn't necessarily call this a western. It is set in the west and there are indians and revenge, but thats pretty much where the similarities end. My only complaints are that Redford plays more of a sensitive mountain man than I would expect and there is an undercurrent of hippieishness that I am guessing wasn't part of 1850s America.
7.5 out of 10 (Very good)

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

mitchamindo!

if my memory serves me correctly.

-heidi

gagknee said...

my memory isn't serving me correctly, can you enlighten me?

gagknee said...

is that what the indians screamed before attacking him?

Anonymous said...

i thought this was the movie that had the little person medicine man in it and ....ohh wait a minute...i'm thinking of 'black robe' ????

gagknee said...

ah, no, i've never heard of black robe till now, although reading about it at imdb it looks pretty good

Big A said...

This movie came on my HD movie channel last night. The only reason I watched it is because you recently wrote this review.

gagknee said...

See, one person can make a difference.