"The Search" begins as Hawkeye and Chingachgook prevent a pair of Assiniboine braves from kidnapping a middle aged white woman, Martha Wales (Marjorie Purvey, first of two), who recuperates at the trading post of Mr. Boncour (Daryl Masters, second of seven). She relates the story of how her husband was murdered by two white men some 18 years before, selling her and her 3 year old son Jed to Ojibwe Indians, whose medicine man, Sun Bear (Ed McNamara), kept the boy and sold her as a slave, keeping hope alive over the years to find her long lost son. A copperman named Paul Revere (Frank Perry, first of two) points Hawkeye to the Ojibwe village, where they find White Eagle (Larry Solway, first of two), proclaimed the 'white prophet' by Sun Bear, his entire life taught to despise white men. After Martha Wales is brought to the village by Chingachgook, Hawkeye prevails upon Red Stick (Cec Linder, first of two) to permit him to fight the treacherous Sun Bear, all too eager to slay her and all white men. In the throwaway role of the actual Paul Revere, Frank Perry's career as an actor was quite brief (only five credits), directing such cult films as "The Swimmer," "Last Summer," "Diary of a Mad Housewife," "Mommie Dearest," and "Monsignor," while native Canadian Cec Linder was best remembered as Felix Leiter in the 1964 James Bond classic "Goldfinger."
Review of The Search
