I don't think I've ever missed this movie on TV. I saw it first when it first came out and got hooked. I guess it's what started my muzzleloading fascination.

Coming on tonight 7:00 Central on GRIT TV.

"Can you skin griz pilgrim?"

One of my favorites too....
I read the book it was based on back in 1976 while ending my first & last year at a military college instead of studying for final exams.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the womens, I surely do. But I swear, a woman’s breast is the hardest rock that the almighty ever put on this earth, and I can find no sign on it.

I almost started a Jeremiah Johnson thread last night.

It’s one of my favorite movies for many reasons, and I’ve watched the countless times, watch it a couple times a year. It was also a tradition to watch it before hunting season every year.

I still watch it, still kinda hoping it will be different, that we’ll get to see what we should have been seeing instead of what happens to him. And that’s the story in a nutshell. It doesn’t really go where he or the viewer expects, like life. “ought to been different”



It also reminded me that I’ve been tempted to start with Robert Redford thread a few times. About the irony maybe, or personal conflict in that someone I really don’t like, is the star of some of my favorite movies.

i.i.r.c. The late R. Lee Ermy
did a show on muzzle loaders,

and his experience with their accuracy left a whole lot to be desired.

which does not seem to be the case portrayed in this movie.

yeah was a very good movie, I've always wondered if J.J. should have been played by an actor that was half as good looking.

Jack Nicholson or James Arness

Tanya Tucker's first ever appearance came in this movie. She is the little girl hidden in the corn crib with her mother put there by the settler to hide them from the Indians when they moved into the crazy woman's place.
Probably my favorite movie of all time.

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Originally posted by bendable:
and his experience with their accuracy left a whole lot to be desired.

which does not seem to be the case portrayed in this movie.

They can be extremely accurate, all things considered. How accurate they could be back then, in the wilds using lord knows what for powder and patch, who can say.

Yep, I doubt I could hit much with one... but then there are a hell of a lot of men buried up on Kings Mountain in S.C. that can attest to how accurate a muzzle loaded rifle can be when used by the right man.

Fantastic movie...

I said, "Mother Gue, the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world." And by God I was right.

And a movie who's dialog works it's way into our daily conversations at work. "saw it right off".

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Great movie. Redford is another DeNiro type actor. Really good at his profession but a liberal jackass.

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Originally posted by kramden:
Great movie. Redford is another DeNiro type actor. Really good at his profession but a liberal jackass.

Son of a bitch, I did not know this about RR. Well fuck that asshole then.

The real Jeremiah Johnson is buried in Cody, Wyoming.
Robert Redford was at the re-burial.

PC

I read a great discription yesterday while looking into other subjects... to paraphrase, they said Jeremiah Johnson was loosely based on the book Liver Eating Johnson, using a loosely based definition of the "term loosely based".

I think I read most of the book years ago and gave up. The book itself and it's story are "loosely based", very little provable facts, mostly old stories and recollections of others. (IIRC)

I think the movie was based on two books:

Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson

and

Mountain Man

the latter is what I read instead of studying for my final exams.... I think it was a great book.... probably need to give it a re-read... it was 44 years ago.

You've come far pilgrim.

One of my all-time favorite movies.