The Last of the Mohicans (1920 American film)
The Last of the Mohicans is a 1920 American film adapted from James Fenimore Coopers novel of the same name. Clarence Brown and Maurice Tourneur directed an adaption by Robert Dillon a story of two English sisters meeting danger on the frontier of the American colonies, in and around the fort commanded by their father. The adventure film stars Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Lillian Hall and Alan Roscoe.
In 1757, in the midst of the French and Indian War, three French divisions and their Huron Indian allies are advancing on Fort William Henry, a British stronghold south of Lake George in the colony of New York. Chingachgook Theodore Lorch sends his son Uncas Roscoe, the last living warrior of the Mohican tribe, to warn the forts commander, Colonel Munro James Gordon, of the imminent danger. Uncas is admired by Munros daughter Cora Barbara Bedford, much to the displeasure of her suitor, Captain Randolph George Hackathorne.Munro dispatches Major Heyward Henry Woodward and an Indian runner named Magua Beery to escort Cora and her capricious younger sister Alice Hall to the relative safety of Fort Edward, and to deliver an urgent request for reinforcements to its commander, General Webb Sydney Deane. Magua, who is a Huron sympathizer with ulterior motives, convinces Heyward to take a shortcut through a forest, then pretends to lose his way. In the forest they encounter Uncas, Chingachgook and the hunter and scout Hawkeye Harry Lorraine, accompanied by an eccentric preacher named David Gamut Nelson McDowell. When Heyward asks for directions to Fort Edward, the men become suspicious of Magua who, like all Indians in the area, should have an intimate knowledge of the terrain. Their fears of treachery are confirmed when they discover that Magua has disappeared. ........
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