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Richard Harris doesn't die easily in director Richard C. Sarafian's frontier film "Man in the Wilderness," a rugged tale of survival set in 1820 about real-life tracker Hugh Glass.
A soft-spoken but intense frontiersman on an extended fur trapping expedition in the 19th century American wilderness gets himself mauled by a grizzly. Maimed but alive, he’s buried and left for...
Man in the Wilderness is a 1971 American revisionist Western film about a scout for a group of mountain men who are traversing the Northwestern United States during the 1820s. The scout is mauled by a bear and left to die by his companions.
Dec 19, 1971 · Man in the Wilderness: Directed by Richard C. Sarafian. With Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon, Percy Herbert. Left for dead after a bear attack, a fur-trapper recuperates and pursues his former companions through dangerous Indian territory.
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- Adventure, Drama, Western
- Richard C. Sarafian
- 1971-12-19
Dec 27, 2016 · In South Dakota, circa the 1820s, a guide (Richard Harris) is nearly fatally mauled by a bear and left for dead by his expedition party of fur trappers, who—intriguingly—are transporting a boat that looks like something out of the story of Noah.
Review: “MAN IN THE WILDERNESS,†(1971), STARRING RICHARD HARRIS; WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION BLU-RAY. BY JOHN M. WHALEN. There have been two films based on the story of Hugh Glass, the mountain man who in 1823 was attacked by a grizzly bear and left for dead in the territory now known as South Dakota. “The Revenant†(2015 ...
As noted in Filmfacts, Man in the Wilderness was based on two real-life occurrences of 1823: trapper Hugh Glass's miraculous survival after being mauled by a bear, and the attack by Arikara Indians on a trapping expedition with an amphibious boat.
