<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $3.1 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $44,693,786 </Td> </Tr> <P> Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 American western film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character and Will Geer as "Bear Claw" Chris Lapp . It is said to have been based partly on the life of the legendary mountain man Liver - Eating Johnson, recounted in Raymond Thorp and Robert Bunker's book Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver - Eating Johnson and Vardis Fisher's Mountain Man . </P> <P> The script was by John Milius and Edward Anhalt; the film was shot at various locations in Redford's adopted home state of Utah . It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival . </P>

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