The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Country: US
Technical: bw 91m
Director: George B. Seitz
Cast: Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon, Bruce Cabot
Synopsis:
During the Seven Years War, an orphaned colonial tracker rescues an English general's daughters from a vengeful Huron, and falls in love with one of them.
Review:
The Balderston/Perex/Moore redesign to which Michael Mann's version (1992) remains surprisingly faithful, though the thirties production values show their age now. Everyone is too clean and polite to be convincing frontier folk, indeed, the Indians are played by Caucasians, and the happy ending which sees Hawkeye join up with the British Army as scout is uncomfortably at odds with the coming war of independence. Still, it zips along briskly enough, and there is some bloodthirsty action among the Huron, making it fair for its time.
Country: US
Technical: bw 91m
Director: George B. Seitz
Cast: Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon, Bruce Cabot
Synopsis:
During the Seven Years War, an orphaned colonial tracker rescues an English general's daughters from a vengeful Huron, and falls in love with one of them.
Review:
The Balderston/Perex/Moore redesign to which Michael Mann's version (1992) remains surprisingly faithful, though the thirties production values show their age now. Everyone is too clean and polite to be convincing frontier folk, indeed, the Indians are played by Caucasians, and the happy ending which sees Hawkeye join up with the British Army as scout is uncomfortably at odds with the coming war of independence. Still, it zips along briskly enough, and there is some bloodthirsty action among the Huron, making it fair for its time.
Country: US
Technical: bw 91m
Director: George B. Seitz
Cast: Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon, Bruce Cabot
Synopsis:
During the Seven Years War, an orphaned colonial tracker rescues an English general's daughters from a vengeful Huron, and falls in love with one of them.
Review:
The Balderston/Perex/Moore redesign to which Michael Mann's version (1992) remains surprisingly faithful, though the thirties production values show their age now. Everyone is too clean and polite to be convincing frontier folk, indeed, the Indians are played by Caucasians, and the happy ending which sees Hawkeye join up with the British Army as scout is uncomfortably at odds with the coming war of independence. Still, it zips along briskly enough, and there is some bloodthirsty action among the Huron, making it fair for its time.