
The Revenant(2015)
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.


“Some say he's dead...some say he never will be.”
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-on-one combat on the early frontier.

Robert Redford
Jeremiah Johnson

Will Geer
Bear Claw

Delle Bolton
Swan

Josh Albee
Caleb

Joaquín Martínez
Paints His Shirt Red

Allyn Ann McLerie
Crazy Woman

Stefan Gierasch
Del Gue

Richard Angarola
Chief Two-Tongues Lebeaux

Paul Benedict
Reverend Lindquist

Charles Tyner
Robidoux
Jeremiah Johnson is a adventure, western, drama, action film released in 1972 exploring themes of based on novel or book, loss of loved one, rocky mountains, survival, snow, cabin. Directed by Sydney Pollack, it stars Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton. A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-on-one combat on the early frontier.
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