The last of the Mohicans

Duration: 120 mi

Year Published: 1920

Creator: Museum of Modern Art

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: silent

Description: This adventure film, based on the Cooper novel, charts the efforts of Alice and Cora Munro to rejoin their father, the commander of a British-held fort in upstate New York. A group of Huron Indians, led by the fierce Magua and allied with the French against the British, try to obstruct their way but are outsmarted by the last of the Mohicans, Uncas, his father Chingachgook and the wilderness man, Hawkeye. Tourneur's version of this classic American tale is characterized by suspenseful sequences and deft camera work. (Circulates)Genre/FormFeature films.

Complete Record: This adventure film, based on the Cooper novel, charts the efforts of Alice and Cora Munro to rejoin their father, the commander of a British-held fort in upstate New York. A group of Huron Indians, led by the fierce Magua and allied with the French against the British, try to obstruct their way but are outsmarted by the last of the Mohicans, Uncas, his father Chingachgook and the wilderness man, Hawkeye. Tourneur's version of this classic American tale is characterized by suspenseful sequences and deft camera work. (Circulates) Genre/FormFeature films.