Soured by civilisation, Jeremiah Johnson sets out in the mid-1800's 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 Award 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 been before or since.