

Susannah finds Tristan captivating but loves Samuel. Years later, Samuel returns from Harvard University with his fiancée, Susannah. The bear awakens and injures him, but he cuts off a claw. At age 12, Tristan touches a sleeping grizzly bear. William's wife Isabel does not adapt to the harsh Montana winters and moves to the East Coast Tristan vows never to speak of her. William has three sons: Alfred, the eldest Tristan, the middle son and Samuel, the youngest. Accompanying them are hired hand and former outlaw Decker, Decker's Cree wife Pet, and daughter Isabel Two. Along with One Stab, a Cree friend, he builds a ranch and raises his family. Sick of betrayals the United States government perpetrated on Native Americans, Colonel William Ludlow leaves the Army, moving to a remote part of Montana. Both the film and book contain occasional Cornish language terms, the Ludlows being a Cornish immigrant family. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards and won for Best Cinematography ( John Toll).

The film's time frame spans nearly 50 years from the early 20th century World War I, through the Prohibition era, and ending with a brief scene set in 1963. Based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison, the film is about three brothers and their father living in the wilderness and plains of Montana in the early 20th century and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love. Legends of the Fall is a 1994 American epic Western drama film directed by Edward Zwick and starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond and Henry Thomas.
