The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)

The Last of the Mohicans is a 1992 American historical drama, set in 1757 during the French and Indian War. It was directed by Michael Mann and based on James Fenimore Coopers novel of the same name and George B. Seitzs 1936 film adaptation, owing more to the latter than the novel. The film stars Daniel DayLewis, Madeleine Stowe, and Jodhi May, with Russell Means, Wes Studi, Eric Schweig, and Steven Waddington in supporting roles. It was produced by Morgan Creek Pictures.

The action of the story takes place in 1757 during the French and Indian War part of the Seven Years War in the Adirondack Mountains in what was then the British colony of New York. Three frontiersmen are traveling west to find a new home. The oldest is Chingachgook, the last chief of the Mohican tribe. With him is his son, Uncas, and an adopted son, a white man named Nathaniel Poe, who also goes by the name Nathaniel Hawkeye.Meanwhile, Major Duncan Heyward, of the British Army, has arrived in Albany. He has been sent to serve under Colonel Edmund Munro, the commander of Fort William Henry, along Lake George, an important point of the defense of New York against the French in Canada. Heyward has also been given the assignment of escorting the colonels two daughters, Cora and Alice, to the fort to join their father. He is a family friend, and in love with Cora, and proposes to her before they leave. She does not give him an answer. ........

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