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Jeremiah Johnson

1972 · directed by Sydney Pollack · 108 min
24,130 feet · Prominence
813rd of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw67

Lifetime worldwide gross $45m, re-releases included; about $353m in 2026 money.

Rank948 of 11,051In 19728 of 38

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise84

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics84 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy48

Judged directly: The nodding Redford meme is ubiquitous.

Verdict48 of 100IMDb7.6 from 37kWikipedia34k views a monthAge54 years

Scored beside it · 1,143 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 67 praise 84 legacy 48averages 66, placing it at24,130 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Will Geer▲ Delle Bolton

In these careers — elevation for this film

Robert Redford20,270 ftSydney Pollack18,307 ftWill Geer18,221 ftDelle Bolton17,984 ftJosh Albee17,932 ftPaul Benedict17,626 ft