Jeremiah Johnson

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Jeremiah Johnson, 1972.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces Jeremiah Johnson, 1972.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces Jeremiah Johnson, 1972.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Jeremiah Johnson, 1972.

Introduced with an overture and a theme song, having been instructed to “turn left at the Rocky Mountains,” aspiring mountain-man Robert Redford (title character) meets a deceased compatriot and loses a mule, early in Sydney Pollack’s Jeremiah Johnson, 1972.

His first encounter with a living person in the post-Civil War western wilderness, novice mountain-man Robert Redford (title character) meets grizzled grizzly hunter Bear Claw (Will Geer), who isn’t overly friendly, early in Sydney Pollack’s Jeremiah Johnson, 1972.

Robert Redford escapes Western society as a mountain man in Sydney Pollack's Jeremiah Johnson (1972).

Unhappily allied with Del Gue (Stefan Gierasch), having accidentally obligated the Flathead (Indian) chief (Richard Angarola) to give him a substantial gift, Robert Redford (title character) receives Swan (Delle Bolton), then departs with his also-unwanted child (Josh Albee), in Jeremiah Johnson, 1972.

Now much more competent after spending the winter with an experienced trapper, Robert Redford (title character) comes upon a newly bereaved mother (Allyn Ann McLerie), victim of an Indian raid, in Sydney Pollack’s Jeremiah Johnson, 1972.