Jeremiah Johnson on AMC

[Salmo trutta]

Here is the link for times: http://www.amctv.com/show/detail?CID=1731-1-EST

Great movie with some great quotes:

"Great hunter ..yes?"....."yes"
"Fine speciman of a man....yes?"...."yes"
"Good ..that is all you need to know"

[D3smartie]

great quotes in that movie. I love it...

I never could find no tracks on a woman's heart. I packed me a squaw for ten year, Pilgrim. Cheyenne, she were, and the meanest ***** that ever balled for beads. I lodge-poled her at Deadwood Creek, and traded her for a Hawken gun. But don't get me wrong; I loves the womens, I surely do. But I swear, a woman's breast is the hardest rock that the Almighty ever made on this earth, and I can find no sign on it.


You're the same dumb pilgrim who's been hearin' for twenty days, and smellin' for three!


Watch your top knot

He was a wild one, old Hatchet Jack. He was livin' two year in a cave up on the Musselshell with a female panther. She never did get used to him.

[Sauvie's Slayer]

"Didn't put enough dirt down... saw it right off"

Love that movie. D3, those are my other fav quotes, you da man.

[gottafish]

Originally Posted by Sauvie's Slayer

"Didn't put enough dirt down... saw it right off"

Love that movie. D3, those are my other fav quotes, you da man.

I lived in a cave up in the mussle shel with a feamale panther. she never did get use to me.

[johndeeregreen]

One of the greatest movies of all time.
Ol Will Primos is always using quotes

[BrianMaguire]

I have it on DVD, a blu-ray version would be sweet. Huntn Griz.

"Won't he see my feet? "
"Elk don't know how many feet a horse has!"

"Whatever you learned down in the flat will serve you no good up here."

[Salmo trutta]

"Can't cheat the mountain pilgrim....mountain got its own ways"

[Twodogs]

Any of you guys ever read (crow killer) its the ture store of jeremiah johnson.
I bought the book and read it that day couldn't put it down.

Gary

[D3smartie]

Jeremiah Johnson: Where you headed?
Del Gue: Same place you are, Jeremiah: hell, in the end.


Say, you wouldn't have an extra hat on you, would you? Shade's getting' scarce in these parts.

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Can you skin Griz?
Jeremiah Johnson: I can skin' em as fast as you can catch' em.
Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Skin that one, pilgrim, and I'll get you another!

I am Bear Claw Chris Lapp; bloodkin to the grizzer that bit Jim Britcher's ass! YOU are molesting my hunt!

[KNOPHISH]

I watched it about 3 times last weekend. I think in my previous life I was a mountain man.

Injuns put you there? Tweren't Mormons.

[Grain of Salt]

Full time night woman?........

[BrianMaguire]

Originally Posted by Twodogs

Any of you guys ever read (crow killer) its the ture store of jeremiah johnson.
I bought the book and read it that day couldn't put it down.

Gary

No I will have to find that, sounds like a good book.

[ehunter]

Great book have read it a couple of times. Crow killer was called liver eating Johnson. After they killed his wife he supposedly ate the liver from the crows he killed.

I just finshed a interesting book called the Last Frontiersmen about a trapper who lived off the land in Alaska until about 3 years ago another good read.

[fishinpoor]

'ya nailed him clean pilgrim

[Cornbread]

Originally Posted by ehunter

Great book have read it a couple of times. Crow killer was called liver eating Johnson. After they killed his wife he supposedly ate the liver from the crows he killed.

I just finshed a interesting book called the Last Frontiersmen about a trapper who lived off the land in Alaska until about 3 years ago another good read.

Links to the two books:

Crow Killer:
http://www.amazon.com/Crow-Killer-Li.../dp/0253203120

The Final Frontiersman:
http://www.amazon.com/Final-Frontier.../dp/0743453131

[Monkey]

I'll Bite!

"I am Bear Claw Chris Lapp; bloodkin to the grizzer that bit Jim Britcher's ass! YOU are molesting my hunt!"

Great post!! One of my favorite movies of all time. Lots of memories with my dad surround Jeremiah Johnson!

If you're gonna read Crow Killer, check out Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher as well. Both books were credited at the end of the film. Haven't read it yet, but oddly enough picked it up two weeks ago at Powell's for $3. Searched it out after finding the movie on DVD at Fred Meyer for $7.


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[ehunter]

Thanks Cornbread

[Buck Fever]

Great movie!! I still even have it on VHS!! Gonna have to get it on DVD...

[Salmo trutta]

Originally Posted by Buck Fever

Great movie!! I still even have it on VHS!! Gonna have to get it on DVD...

$9 and change at Bi-Mart

[ehunter]

darn I should have looked there I order it off amazon along with a couple of books.

[D3smartie]

one of my other favorites....

"He says you fish poorly"

[Salmo trutta]

"Many's the child who journeys this high looking for something they couldn't find down below!"

[MossyOarReelCreek]

I just watched it a couple weeks ago. Recorded on DVR.
I found some interesting trivia. Not sure what scene as I wasn't looking. But, I wil watch it again and look for them.


Although the film is set during the aftermath of the Mexican War (1848-50), the mountain vistas display some lovely radio towers and fire ranger stations.

[MossyOarReelCreek]

Here are some very interesting facts.. and a bunch of quotes. I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!

Trivia

• Based upon a real-life trapper named John Johnston, nicknamed "Crow Killer" and "Liver Eater Johnston" for his penchant for cutting out and eating the livers of Crow Indians he had killed (several Crows had murdered his wife and he swore vengeance against the entire tribe).<LI class=halfspace>The Italian release title of the film was called "Red Crow You Will Not Have My Scalp".
• Trapper John Johnston's body was buried in the Veteran's Cemetery in Los Angeles. After the movie came out, the cemetery had to be moved to make way for a new highway. Johnston's body was reburied at Old Trail Town in Cody, Wyoming. Robert Redford was a pallbearer in the reburial ceremony attended by 2,000 people.

Goofs

• Del Gue buried in the sand is at first soaked with perspiration. A minute later his head is almost dry.<LI class=halfspace>The wedding song is actually a song the Salish people sing at funerals. The producers wanted a song during the wedding and the Salish don't have one. So the technical adviser, Johnny Arlee, gave them three song to choose from and they liked "Coming Home", a death song.
• During the scene toward the end when Jeremiah shares a rabbit with Chris, one shot shows no smoke from the fire, yet there was lots of smoke in all the other shots.

Movie Connections

• Edited into: Classe américaine, La<LI class=halfspace>Referenced in: Mindwarp | The Directors: Sydney Pollack | Legend of the Phantom Rider | A Decade Under the Influence <LI class=halfspace>Featured in: The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson | Precious Images | A Century of Cinema | The Directors: Sydney Pollack
• Spoofed in: The 74th Annual Academy Awards

Quotes

• Jeremiah Johnson: Where you headed?
  Del Gue: Same place you are, Jeremiah: hell, in the end.<LI class=halfspace>Jeremiah Johnson: Won't he see my feet?
  Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Elk don't know how many feet a horse has!
  <LI class=halfspace>[Jeremiah and Bear Claw hunt elk] Jeremiah Johnson: Wind's right, but he'll just run soon as we step out of these trees.
  Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Trick to it. Walk out on this side of your horse.
  Jeremiah Johnson: What if he sees our feet?
  Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Elk don't know how many feet a horse has!
  <LI class=halfspace>[first lines]
  Narrator: His name was Jeremiah Johnson, and they say he wanted to be a mountain man. The story goes that he was a man of proper wit and adventurous spirit, suited to the mountains. Nobody knows whereabouts he come from and don't seem to matter much. He was a young man and ghosty stories about the tall hills didn't scare him none. He was looking for a Hawken gun, .50 caliber or better. He settled for a .30, but damn, it was a genuine Hawken, and you couldn't go no better. Bought him a good horse, and traps, and other truck that went with being a mountain man, and said good-bye to whatever life was down there below.
  <LI class=halfspace>Jeremiah Johnson: Just where is it I could find bear, beaver, and other critters worth cash money when skinned?
  Robidoux: Ride due west as the sun sets. Turn left at the Rocky Mountains.
  <LI class=halfspace>[Jeremiah and Caleb find Del Gue buried to his neck in sand] Jeremiah Johnson: Are you all right?
  Del Gue: Sure, sure, I got a fine horse under me!
  [sneezes]
  Del Gue: Got one of them feathers in my nose.
  Jeremiah Johnson: You keep sneezing, it'll come out all right. Haven't seen anyone pass by recent, have you?
  Del Gue: Nobody's gone in front of me. Can't say what's happened behind me, though.
  Jeremiah Johnson: The Injuns put you here?
  Del Gue: T'weren't Mormons. A Chief, name of Mad Wolf. Nice fella, don't talk a hell of a lot. Say, you wouldn't have an extra hat on you, would you? Shade's getting' scarce in these parts.
  Jeremiah Johnson: What'd you shave your head for?
  Del Gue: Mad Wolf figures like every other Injun I know. Says this scalp isn't fit for no decent man's lodgepole. Ain't the first time I've protected my head in such a way. Name's Del Gue, with an "e".
  <LI class=halfspace>[Jeremiah and Caleb see a bird flying across the sky] Jeremiah Johnson: Hawk. Goin' for the Musselshell. Take me a week's ridin', and he'll be there in... hell, he's there already.
  <LI class=halfspace>Jeremiah Johnson: You will do well, Del. You will do well, if you don't get in too much trouble with all that hair.
  Del Gue: Ain't this somethin'? I told my pap and mam I was coming to the mountains to trap and be a mountain man. Acted like they was gut-shot. Says, "son, make your life go here. Here's where the peoples is. Them mountains is for animals and savages." I said, "Mother Gue, the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world." And by God I was right.
  <LI class=halfspace>Del Gue: I ain't never seen 'em, but my common sense tells me the Andes is foothills, and the Alps is for children to climb! Keep good care of your hair! These here is God's finest scupturings! And there ain't no laws for the brave ones! And there ain't no asylums for the crazy ones! And there ain't no churches, except for this right here! And there ain't no priests excepting the birds. By God, I are a mountain man, and I'll live 'til an arrow or a bullet finds me. And then I'll leave my bones on this great map of the magnificent...
  <LI class=halfspace>Del Gue: Which way you headed, Jeremiah?
  Jeremiah Johnson: Canada, maybe. I here there is land there a man has never seen.
  Del Gue: Well, keep your nose in the wind, and your eyes along the skyline.
  Jeremiah Johnson: I will do that, Del Gue.
  <LI class=halfspace>Jeremiah Johnson: Who are they?
  Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Crow, most likely. This is their hunting ground, if they catch us, they'll steal our horses
  [an arrow flies by Bear Claw's head and sticks in a tree]
  Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Yep, Crow. Fella by the name of Paints-his-Shirt-Red. That's his sign.
  <LI class=halfspace>[Jeremiah and Del have killed the Indians that stole Del's horse and gear] Del Gue: Don't you want any of these?
  Jeremiah Johnson: What?
  Del Gue: Scalps!
  [Shaken by the incident] Jeremiah Johnson: No.
  Del Gue: Well, Mother Gue never raised such a foolish child!
  [Pulls his knife and begins scalping the Indians]
  <LI class=halfspace>[Del and Jeremiah have run into a Flathead scouting party] Del Gue: He wants to know if you are the great warrior who avenges the crazy women that lives in the Wolf Tail Valley. She's big medicine and you are too, if you be that man.
  [the Indian begins talking in a very loud voice] Jeremiah Johnson: Say, why's he yellin'?
  Del Gue: Scared of ya.
  <LI class=halfspace>[Jerimiah finds the frozen body of Hatchet Jack]
  Hatchet Jack: I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs, do leaveth my rifle to the next thing who finds it, Lord hope he be a white man. It is a good rifle, and kilt the bear that kilt me. Anyway, I am dead. Sincerley, Hatchet Jack.
  <LI class=halfspace>Jeremiah Johnson: Y'ever get lonesome?
  Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Fer what?
  Jeremiah Johnson: Woman?
  Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Full time night woman? I never could find no tracks on a woman's heart. I packed me a squaw for ten year, Pilgrim. Cheyenne, she were, and the meanest ***** that ever balled for beads. I lodge-poled her at Deadwood Creek, and traded her for a Hawken gun. But don't get me wrong; I loves the womens, I surely do. But I swear, a woman's breast is the hardest rock that the Almighty ever made on this earth, and I can find no sign on it.
  <LI class=halfspace>Del Gue: Jeremiah, maybe you best go down to a town, get outta these mountains.
  Jeremiah Johnson: I've been to a town Del.
  <LI class=halfspace>Bear Claw Chris Lapp: You've come far pilgrim.
  Jeremiah Johnson: Feels like far.
  Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Were it worth the trouble?
  Jeremiah Johnson: What trouble?
  <LI class=halfspace>Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Can you skin Griz?
  Jeremiah Johnson: I can skin' em as fast as you can catch' em.
  [Bear Claw runs through the cabin with a huge grizzly bear close behind and jumps out the back window]
  Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Skin that one, pilgrim, and I'll get you another!
  <LI class=halfspace>[Caleb is crying]
  Jeremiah Johnson: Stop that, boy!
  <LI class=halfspace>Bear Claw Chris Lapp: You're the same dumb pilgrim who's been hearin' for twenty days, and smellin' for three!
  <LI class=halfspace>[Jeremiah is being forced by the Flathead chief to marry an Indian girl]
  Jeremiah Johnson: Del Gue, I don't think this is a good idea.
  Del Gue: He may be a Christian and talk white; but he's still an Indian and his rules is his rules. Now, when this is over you can talk her to Fort Hawley and trade her, but you will get married my friend. Besides, maybe she ain't half bad.
  <LI class=halfspace>[Bear Claw is talking to Paints-his-Shirt in Crow]
  Jeremiah Johnson: You understand what he's sayin'?
  Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Paints-His-Shirt speaks English, he just does this to aggravate me.
  <LI class=halfspace>Bear Claw Chris Lapp: I am Bear Claw Chris Lapp; bloodkin to the grizzer that bit Jim Britcher's ass! YOU are molesting my hunt!
  <LI class=halfspace>[to Jeremiah] Del Gue: You turn down this gift, and they'll slit you, me, Caleb and the horses from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler!
  <LI class=halfspace>[Bear Claw has found Jeremiah half starved and freezing]
  Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Heh, heh, heh. How come you ain't been scalped?
  <LI class=halfspace>Jeremiah Johnson: Ain't that hair I see on your head, Del?
  Del Gue: I figured that when I depart this life I'd like to leave something behind even if just to be remembered on some man's lodge pole.
  Jeremiah Johnson: Sound thinking, Del.
  <LI class=halfspace>[Jeremiah and Del are parting company]
  Jeremiah Johnson: You'll do well, Del; providing you don't get into trouble with all that hair.
  Del Gue: Ain't this somethin'? I told my pap and mam I was going to be a mountain man; acted like they was gut-shot. "Make your life go here, son. Here's where the people is. Them mountains is for Indians and wild men." "Mother Gue", I says "the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world," and by God, I was write. Keep your nose in the wind and your eye along the skyline.
  <LI class=halfspace>Del Gue: Ain't that Hatchet Jack's rifle?
  Jeremiah Johnson: Yep. Found him froze to a tree.
  Del Gue: Damn! He was a wild one, old Hatchet Jack. He was livin' two year in a cave up on the Musselshell with a female panther. She never did get used to him.
  <LI class=halfspace>Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Watch your top knot.
  Jeremiah Johnson: Yep, watch your'n.
• [Jeremiah has just killed a Crow warrior who has been stalking him]
  Del Gue: Is it always like this? One at a time?
  Jeremiah Johnson: Yep.
  Del Gue: Lucky they were Crow. Apache would have sent fifty at once.

[Chesapeake]

Looks like your last quote is wrong. I'm pretty sure Bear claw said the "Lucky the were crow" line by the fire eating rabbit.

I also think they may have had the rifles wrong. The true Hawkens were known to have two wedge pins holding the barrel on but I think the ones in the movie only had one. Cant remember for sure, bean a while since I watched it.

[Bait Bucket]

My favored: "What's on the spit?"

[MossyOarReelCreek]

Originally Posted by Chesapeake

Looks like your last quote is wrong. I'm pretty sure Bear claw said the "Lucky the were crow" line by the fire eating rabbit.

I also think they may have had the rifles wrong. The true Hawkens were known to have two wedge pins holding the barrel on but I think the ones in the movie only had one. Cant remember for sure, bean a while since I watched it.

**I think you're right. The info is from a movie trivia site.

[Salmo trutta]

Originally Posted by MossyOarReelCreek

**I think you're right. The info is from a movie trivia site.

Nope Del Gue said it right after an indian attack in the dark. No indians attacked while bear claw was at his fire side chat.

[Chesapeake]

I guess Im confused. Havent watched in too long.

Sitting by the fire when the spear hits the tree? Del Gue?

For some reason I was thinking this was the same scene as the rabbit but now the fog is clearing. Bear claw stopped by and ate a little rabbit and left. Different scene, ok I'm back in line.

[MossyOarReelCreek]

Originally Posted by Salmo trutta

Nope Del Gue said it right after an indian attack in the dark. No indians attacked while bear claw was at his fire side chat.

Well, I guess it holds true then.

"I once thought I was wrong but, I was mistaken"

[speydude]

Unfortunately, By the time I found out the movie was on, it was on the same time as the Bears game. I watched it during commercials. If you read the credits, it says that the movie is based on a book by Vardis Fisher called "The Mountain Man". I have always loved the movie so I read the book. It's a great book. I liked it so much I got a hold of 3 other books by the same author and read them as well. There is a 4 book series about a boy growing up in Idaho at the turn of the century.

I'll have to give the other 2 books mentioned a read.

"Mother Gue never raised no fool"

[rob allen]

Great Movie


" I hatchet Jack being of sound mind and broke legs hereby leaveth my bear rifle to whatever finds it, Lord hope it be a white man. It is a good rifle and kilt the bear that kilt me, anyway I am dead
Yours Truly
Hatchet Jack "

[PIR8 Hook]

Originally Posted by Twodogs

Any of you guys ever read (crow killer) its the ture store of jeremiah johnson.
I bought the book and read it that day couldn't put it down.

Gary

The book I read that the movie gives credit to is The Mountian Man By Varidus (sp?) Fisher, (a history prof from ID, I believe).

The story line is very similar though the hero's name is NOT Jerimiah Johnson it speaks of "Liver Eating Johnson" who was held prisioner by some Native Americans until he killed his guard and cut off a thigh & took his liver and escaped though the dead of winter eating his captor's remains.

[BrianMaguire]

Originally Posted by Bait Bucket

My favored: "What's on the spit?"

"Grown Particular?"

[SlyHawk]

Anybody know where J. Johnson lived in his last day's???????? Maybee he's still up there?

[D3smartie]

Some say he's dead, some say he never will be

[riverswild]

Originally Posted by D3smartie

Some say he's dead, some say he never will be