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.

In 1820, an expedition led by Captain Henry has completed two years of fur trapping in the unexplored Northwest territory.

Lowrie, a young trapper, hunts a deer and Zachary Bass follows after it until he is mauled by a brown bear.

Zachary's flesh wounds are examined by the expedition's doctor, Ferris, who believes he will not survive the journey.

He first remembers his days as a student, and his then-pregnant wife Grace, who urges him to believe God is in him and all living things.

Fogarty, who is on the night watch, believes he sees Zachary and shoots him, but it turns out he had killed Lowrie.

It was based on an original script by Jack De Witt, and bought by producer Sandy Howard.

The film was shot near Covaleda, Province of Soria, Spain, with the terrain looking more like the Adirondack wilderness and less like the Absaroka Range country of the Yellowstone River.

[4] John Huston joined the production a few days after quitting as director of the film The Last Run due to on-set fights with George C.

[6] Though survival and revenge are the main themes, Christianity and religion play a significant role in the evolution of the main character, who is shown through flashbacks to be at odds with religion and God in general due to his lonely and abusive childhood involving indoctrination into Christianity.