#53. Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

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– Director: Sydney Pollack

– Metascore: 75

– Runtime: 108 minutes

Robert Redford plays the title character, a Civil War veteran who heads west for a solitary life, and struggles to co-exist with the Crow Indians. The film, which took seven-and-a-half months to edit, was the first Western ever entered into competition at the Cannes Film Festival.