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MAN IN THE WILDERNESS premieres in NY. Directed by Richard C. Sarafian from a screenplay by Jack DeWitt. Film recounts the extraordinary (possibly apocryphal) ordeal of one Hugh Glass, an American frontiersman who, in 1823, miraculously half-crawled and half-walked over 200 miles through the frozen tundra to seek vengeance on a group of fur trappers that had adandoned him after he was horrifically mauled by a bear. Fresh from his triumph in A Man Called Horse, Richard Harris, here playing Glass under the name Zachary Bass, takes a leaf out of Jeremiah Johnson's playbook with a performance steeped in unwavering, one-eyed determination. John Huston and Henry Wilcoxon head up the supporting cast. Alejandro Inarritu’s The Revenant from 2015, featuring Leonardo DeCaprio, is a superb reimaging of Glass’s ordeal.
