Soured by civilization, Jeremiah Johnson sets out in the mid 1800s to be a mountain man, seeking solitude in a wilderness whose purity he never questioned. His first Rocky Mountain winter almost kills him. Starving and nearly frozen, he finds refuge with a wily old trapper (Will Geer) whose survival teaching includes going eyeball to eyeball with a grizzly.

Robert Redford and two-time Academy AwardŽ winner Sydney Pollack teamed for the second of their six films together on this box-office hit shot entirely in Utah. JEREMIAH JOHNSON "gets back to Nature" in a way no film ever has before or since.