O Último Moicano (1936)

As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil... See full summary »

Director:

George B. Seitz

Writers:

James Fenimore Cooper (novel), Philip Dunne (screen play)

Stars:

Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon

Nominated for 1 Oscar.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Randolph Scott	...	Hawkeye
Binnie Barnes	...	Alice Munro
Henry Wilcoxon	...	Major Duncan Hayward
Bruce Cabot	...	Magua
Heather Angel	...	Cora Munro
Phillip Reed	...	Uncas
Robert Barrat	...	Chingachgook
Hugh Buckler	...	Colonel Munro
Willard Robertson	...	Captain Winthrop
William Stack	...	General Montcalm
Lumsden Hare	...	General Abercrombie
Frank McGlynn Sr.	...	David Gamut
Will Stanton	...	Jenkins
William V. Mong	...	Sachem
Art Dupuis	...	De Levis

Storyline

As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son Uncas, the last of the Mohican tribe, and their white ally, the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Hawkeye.

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Plot Keywords:

mohican indian | burned at the stake | smoke signal | court martial | bare chested male | 

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Taglines:

James Fenimore Cooper's Greatest Tale Of Rousing Adventure!

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Genres:

Adventure | Drama | History | War | Western

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 September 1936 (USA)

Also Known As:

O Último Moicano

Filming Locations:

Big Bear Lake, Big Bear Valley, San Bernardino National Forest, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Edward Small Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Victor System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

May 1, 1936, the Triplicate reported that a camera crew showed up in Crescent City & Smith River to undertake the preparations for filming an adaption of "The Last of the Mohicans" using Yurok, Hoopa and Tolowa extras. Tolowas and mixed-Tolowas hired on as extras included Clifford Winton, Harry Bob, Fred Moorehead, William White, Andrew Whipple, Chester Scott, Johnny Frank, Chester James, Robert Spott, Lawrence Spott, Edward Spott, and Jack James. They were paid $5.00 a day. The federal government arranged the pay scale for the reservation Indians who had acted as extras.

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Goofs

A settler tells Hawkeye he hasn't seem him in a coon's age. However, this form of expression was first known to be used in 1843 - nearly 90 years after the events in the film are supposed to have occurred (in 1757).

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Quotes

Chingachgook: Great Spirit. Fair warrior goes to you. Swift, straight and unseen like arrow shot into sun. Let him sit at Counsel fire of my tribe. For he is Uncas, my son. My fire, his ashes. Your fire, is bright. Now, all my tribe is there, but one. I, Chingachgook, Last of Mohican.

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Crazy Credits

Opening credits are shown on a rock, with rock art (petroglyphs).

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Alternate Versions

Also available in a colourised version

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Connections

Version of O Filho do Sol (1947)

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Soundtracks

Yankee Doodle
(ca. 1755) (uncredited)
Traditional music of English origin
Sung by the Soldiers

User Reviews

No More Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans has been an American classic for several years. It's still considered to have set the standard for writing about the French and Indian war period. More people get their knowledge from that novel as opposed to a serious historical study like Francis Parkman's.

Major Duncan Heyward played by Henry Wilcoxon is charged with escorting the two daughters of his commanding officer to their father at Fort William Henry. The daughters are a pair of beauties, Binnie Barnes and Heather Angel. Along to blaze the trail are white scout Hawkeye and a father and son team of Mohican Indians, Robert Barrat and Phillip Reed as Chingachgook and Uncas.

The trip might better never been made because when they get there the fort is under siege from the French army under General Montcalm and from the Huron Indians as well.

The reason why The Last of the Mohicans holds up so well even today is that Cooper invests his Indian characters with dignity and strength. Even the villainous Magua played by Bruce Cabot makes it plain he's an equal ally of the French not a retainer. Of course he shows his independence of them in a most savage way.

Randolph Scott has one of his best early roles as Hawkeye as does Henry Wilcoxon in one of his few non-DeMille screen appearances of note.

Also the theme of interracial love was daring in its time to be written. Phillip Reed and Heather Angel are a pair of frontier Romeo and Juliet types, we really feel for their tragedy.

Though a big budget version with Daniel Day-Lewis is out there and more people are familiar with it, this version of The Last of the Mohicans still holds up well today.