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The Deerslayer (1957)

The Deerslayer poster
Directed by
Kurt Neumann
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 17m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 14 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A frontiersman in the 1740s gets caught between a Native American tribe's war party and a colonial fort. He tries to protect a group of settlers while upholding his own moral code.

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What happens

The Deerslayer is a 1957 American Western film in CinemaScope and Color by De Luxe, directed by Kurt Neumann and written by Carroll Young, Neumann and an uncredited Dalton Trumbo. The film stars Lex Barker, Rita Moreno, Forrest Tucker, Cathy O'Donnell, Jay C. Flippen and Carlos Rivas. It is based on the 1841 novel The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper. The film was released on September 10, 1957, by 20th Century-Fox. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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