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Directed by Richard C. Sarafian, Man In The Wilderness premieres. Written by Jack DeWitt, the 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.
