Jeremiah Johnson : Similar Films? (westerns in the mountains/snow)

great movie..does anyone know of any westerns that have similar settings?

The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971), and Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood, 1985).

lol.always there to answer my question joekiddthanks.I had the great silence in mind.is it any good?

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lol.always there to answer my question joekiddthanks.I had the great silence in mind.is it any good?

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You know, I've yet to see it myself, but it has a reputation as a cult-classic and the viewer reviews on this site are highly enthusiastic. I'd love to see it at some point.

I've been meaning to see itbut I've been kinda scared to because I thought django was pretty rough.it's no fistful that's for sure.

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I've been meaning to see itbut I've been kinda scared to because I thought django was pretty rough.it's no fistful that's for sure.

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Well, I have now viewed The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968), and it's certainly the best non-Leone "spaghetti" Western that I've ever seen. The stark elegance of the visual compositions, with deathly dark figures framed by the eerie whiteness ot the winter environs, is truly unforgettable. Add an eclectic, trance-like, tenuously compulsive score from Ennio Morricone and a sense of individual rebellion against social exploitation, and the film is both an audio-visual visceral experience and an intellectual one. The acting is crude in places (to be expected), but Corbucci's direction is chilling, moody, and atmospheric, again aided by his locations, Morricone's music, and Silvano Ippoliti's haunting cinematography. I'd even go so far as to say that along with Eastwood's High Plains Drifter (1973) and Unforgiven (1992), The Great Silence is one of the best Westerns at conveying the spatial harshness and spookily isolating remoteness of life in the Old West. The Great Silence also provides a fiercer, rawer complement to Sergio Leone's magisterial masterpiece Once Upon a Time in the West (also from 1968), with both films speaking to the pathos accompanying wildly wielded economic exploitation in the Italian-interpreted American West.

What about Death Hunt or The White Buffalo - both starring Charles Bronson

I believe 'Never Cry Wolf' has a similar setting.

The Mountain Men starring Charlton Heston is similar

>>>What about Death Hunt or The White Buffalo - both starring Charles Bronson<<<

Yeah, both well-done ones by THE MAN, definitly to be seen. :-)

How about Shane filmed in Jackson Hole The Rounders filmed in Sedona Az

A Man Called Horse and Man In The Wilderness both starring Richard Harris are in the same category.

I'm surprised that no one else mentioned Man In The Wilderness. I saw JJ and MITW as a double feature in the fall of 1972 at a drive-in, although MITW was probably released about a year earlier. 2 fantastic movies.

I concur with inspectormusso about those two. Both in my top five of the Western genre.

Seems the only thing the lone White man and the Indians had in common was the same foe, the force of nature itself that they both had to, if not conquer, but at least subdue just to survive. The Indians seemed to give respect, if only grudgingly perhaps, to the White man that could come up there and battle the elements and survive. Maybe there's a lesson in there we could all learn something from, aye??

"I've been to a town, Del"Classic!!





"Go back to your oar, Forty One."

Track of the Cat, starring Robert Mitchum and Directed by William A. Wellman. It's supposed to be a visual masterpiece.

The beginning of the miniseries "Centennial" is like that. Too bad it's not on DVD.

I would second Track of the Cat. Phenomenal movie. It can be a little slow, but it was a book that must have been hard to translate to the screen as it is immensely allegorical/psychological and relies on a lot of dream sequences that were not written into the movie.

i would say "black rope" a great indian movie.

cannibal! the musical, anyone?

Black Robe, you must have meant. Good movie, but not exactly a western.

The Mountain Men

There is a movie called Guardian of the Wilderness which I would consider to be of the same nature, the lone mountain man.

I wish I could find a copy because it hasn't been shown in years

"Windwalker" (1980) was notable for being a Western that dealt with intertribal warfare between pre-Columbian Native Americans. Even if most of the cast were Caucasian!

And, "Winterhawk" (1975) dealt with a Blackfoot chief kidnapping a white brother and sister in retaliation for the ambush of his fur-trading party (who had hoped to swap their pelts for smallpox vaccine).*

*The sister was played by a post-GILLIGAN'S ISLAND Dawn Wells!

The Searchers with John Wayne has a similar feel. Great movie about conflict and racism.

"Last of the Dogman" is not about mountain men but it has a decent storline and some great scenery. In addition, I'd also say that "Sacred Ground" and "Windwalker" are highly recommended ones as well.

man in the wilderness, the mountian men, and the first couple parts of into the west (cleanest damn mountian men i ever seen). thats the best ones on mountian men i know of but i prefer books and hangin with the other mountian man re-enactors alot better

Will Penny is great with Charlton Heston.

Nice suggestions

Will Penny is fantastic.

Alone in the Wilderness,its not a movie but a documentary about Dick Proenneke,Who lived alone in a small cabin in the Alaskan wilderness for 30 years filming his daily routines and some of the best nature footage ever.This is one of my favorite movies.

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Yeah that's a great documentary, and another one by the same father/son producing team is called Silence and Solitude which includes some more about Proenneke and their own Alaskan nature footage. Alone in the Wilderness was a huge hit on PBS and I know here in Seattle it had an especially large following. Dick was an amazingly creative and self-sufficient outdoorsman. Some of his daily journal writings were compiled into a book also called Man in the Wilderness I believe. It's very interesting. He had many many more journal entries over the several decades he spent alone in his Twin Lakes cabin which are yet to be published.

I'm suprised no one's mentioned Dead Man with johnny depp. While it definately has a very different style and plot, the mood of lonliness and solitude conveyed in the movie remind me alot of Jeremiah Johnson.

Its a cowboy movie rather than mountain man, but I thought 'Open Range' had some of the best scenery of any recent movie.

Plus its not a bad story; and being relatively new its not hard to find on DVD.

I love The Missing. I wish I'd seen it more than once in the theater.


Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle "Dixie"?

I really liked Tommy Lee Jones' character (as I usually do). I would love to see a prequal to this movie to tell some of his story.

I'm really surprised at how people didn't care for this movie (it's low rating). I think it was great.


Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle "Dixie"?

I haven't seen it yet but the reviews when it came out kinda turned me off. Made it sound exceedingly violent and both PC and racist, not to mention a strange combination of a homage to Ford's The Searchers, weird Indian rituals, a family drama among others. I guess it was quite a departure for Howard FWIW. I've really only cared for Tommie Lee Jones in Lonesome Dove and The Fugitive. Jeez after Robert Duvall's character died in Lonesome Dove the life went out of the film and Jones sure couldn't carry it alone IMO. The Missing garnered a 58% approval rating from the reviews at rottentomatoes.com. Maybe someday I'll give it a looksee. Boy this new Jesse James movie with Brad Pitt has gotten some good buzz and is supposed to be more along the lines mood and look-wise to a Terence Malick flick. Good thing if more like Days of Heaven but not so good if like The Thin Red Line which underwhelmed me.

Breakheart Pass with Charles Bronson. An interesting mix of western, action, and Christie-esque murder mystery, all with plenty of beautiful, snowy scenery.


She's gone to warn the wizard! Come on, get my tin hat!

A little late to this thread, but also I'd add "Cry of the Black Wolves" (1973)

What, no LITTLE BIG MAN? Or did I miss someone mentioning it already?

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What, no LITTLE BIG MAN? Or did I miss someone mentioning it already?

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Yes, good call, although that's only for select scenes. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) is similar in that regard, as is Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992).

I know they have already been mentioned, but McCabe and Mrs Miller and the Great Silence are closer to this film than anything I can remember. They also happen to be two of the best Westerns I've ever seen.

Recently Into the Wild kind of reminded me of this flick, although it would be more than a stretch to go beyond the 'back to nature' aspect there.

Someone really needs to make another snowy mountain Western, I'd love to see something like McCabe and Mrs Miller hit the screen, but period pieces tend to do dick all for business, so they rarely come.

Ravenous. It's a horror western.

The Outlaw Josey Wales is similar, but I don't remember any snow.

McCabe And Mrs. Miller (Warren Beatty)
Harry Tracy (Bruce Dern)
Little Big Man (Dustin Hoffman)
The Long Riders (Stacy Keach)
Mountain Men (Charleton Heston) [Mediocre film, though]

Man in the Wilderness with Richard Harris and John Huston is one that I have always thought to be similar to this movie