The Last of the Mohicans (1920)

Directed by

Clarence Brown, Maurice Tourneur

Genre

drama film, silent film, adventure film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 13m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two English sisters travel to a frontier fort in the American colonies to join their father. They face danger and conflict with Native American tribes during a war.

adventuroustenseromantichistoricalstarkmelodramaticstoicdangerous

What happens

The Last of the Mohicans is a 1920 American silent adventure drama film written by Robert A. Dillon, adapted from James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 novel of the same name. Clarence Brown and Maurice Tourneur co-directed the film. (Brown took over the direction of the film after Tourneur injured himself in a fall.) It is 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, Alan Roscoe and Boris Karloff in one of his earliest silent film roles (playing an Indian brave). Barbara Bedford later married her co-star in the film, Alan Roscoe in real life. The production was shot near Big Bear Lake and in Yosemite Valley. The film was well received at the time of its release. Film historian William K. Everson considers The Last of the Mohicans to be a masterpiece. In 1995, the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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