<Li> Sheila Raynor - Grace's Mother </Li> <Li> Judith Furse - Nurse </Li> <P> Man in the Wilderness is based loosely on the 1818 - 20 Missouri Expedition and "Capt . Henry" is likely a fictionalized Major Andrew Henry of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company . The film was shot near Covaleda, Province of Soria, Spain, with the terrain looking more like the Adirondack wilderness and less like the Absaroka country of the Yellowstone River . Not technically a "Spaghetti Western", Man was filmed in the rugged highlands where David Lean had shot some of the scenes for Doctor Zhivago in 1964 . </P> <P> John Huston had joined this production a few days after he had quit as director for the film, The Last Run, due to on - set fights with George C. Scott . </P>

Where was the movie man in the wilderness filmed