The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

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Author

James Fenimore Cooper (novel); John L. Balderston (adaptation); Paul Perez; (adaptation); Daniel Moore; (adaptation); Philip Dunne; (1936 screenplay); Michael Mann (screenplay); Christopher Crowe (screenplay);

Length

122 min

Director

Michael Mann

Synopsis

"The cinematic versions of The Last of the Mohicans usually delete Cooper's extensive sections about the Indians. The films create romantic relationships between the principal characters, which do not occur in the novel or are minimal. The roles of some characters are reversed or altered, as are the events." [Wikipedia] "When rugged frontiersman Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) saves the Munro sisters -- two newly arrived English settlers -- from a Huron ambush, he ends up in the midst of the battle between the British and the French for control of the American colonies. Director Michael Mann's first-rate production also stars Madeleine Stowe as the Munro sister who wins Hawkeye's heart, and Wes Studi as the Huron warrior who has a score to settle with her father." [Netflix]

Genre

Historical

Released

1992

Location

North America

Period

The setting is upstate New York in 1757 during the French and Indian War.

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