The story follows a Mexican War veteran who turns his back on civilization to become a mountain man in the mid-19th-century Rocky Mountains. Rather than a typical action-packed Western, the film is a picaresque series of vignettes showing Jeremiah's evolution from a "green" novice to a hardened legend.
In an era of high-speed digital noise, there is something profoundly grounding about returning to the quiet, snow-dusted peaks of Sydney Pollack’s 1972 masterpiece, Jeremiah Johnson . Starring Robert Redford at the height of his "golden boy" fame, the film traded Hollywood polish for raw, frostbitten realism, becoming a definitive meditation on solitude and survival . The Soul of a Mountain Man