Period adventure based on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper, starring Randolph Scott. North America, 1756: during the French and Indian War, frontiersman Hawkeye and his Mohican allies, Uncas and Chingachgook, escort a British officer and two female companions through hostile territory to the besieged Fort William Henry - a journey fraught with excitement and danger.
Though not a patch on the 1992 epic starring Daniel Day-Lewis, this is an honest attempt at filming the James Fenimore Cooper classic. Randolph Scott makes a strapping Hawkeye, but Robert Barrat is ill-cast as Chingachgook, the native American of the title. The action sequences are remarkably well-staged by director George B Seitz, who had directed the tale in 1924 as part of a ten-part adaptation of Cooper's collected tales called Leatherstocking, and who would go on to make MGM's popular Andy Hardy series.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Hawkeye | Randolph Scott |
| Alice Munro | Binnie Barnes |
| Cora Munro | Heather Angel |
| Colonel Munro | Hugh Buckler |
| Major Duncan Heyward | Henry Wilcoxon |
| Magua | Bruce Cabot |
| Chingachgook | Robert Barrat |
| Captain Winthrop | Willard Robertson |
| David Gamut | Frank McGlynn Sr |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | George B Seitz |
