The Mountain Men is a 1980 American adventure Western film directed by Richard Lang and starring Charlton Heston and Brian Keith.

Running Moon leaves her abusive husband, a ruthless Blackfoot warrior named Heavy Eagle, and comes across the two trappers in the dying days of the fur trapping era.

Heavy Eagle returns to his camp and tries to make Running Moon his woman again, raping her, but she refuses to submit to him.

After Le Bont and Walters are killed by Heavy Eagle and his warriors, Henry is shot in the chest with an arrow and dies in Tyler's arms.

Tyler constructs a traditional Blackfoot sky burial platform next to a river and places Henry's corpse on it, before he and Running Moon ride away for the high country, in search of the beaver valley.

[3] Variety assessed the film as "loaded with vulgarities, bloody, and takes ages to drag from one plot development to another".

[4] Both Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert gave the film negative reviews, selecting it as one of their "dogs of the year" in a 1980 episode of Sneak Previews.

"[5] In his annual publication, Leonard Maltin rated the film "BOMB" and described it as "crude, bloody and tiresome good-guys-vs-Indians western".

[6] Linda Gross of the Los Angeles Times gave a partially favorable review, writing that "for the most part, the film...is an enjoyable yarn".