The Last of the Mohicans (1920)

Description

The Last of the Mohicans is a 1920 American film adapted from James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans. Clarence Brown and Maurice Tourneur directed an adaption by Robert A. Dillon — 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 (actor), Lillian Hall and Alan Roscoe.

The film was well-received at the time of its release. In 1995, this film was deemed “culturally significant” by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry].

Cast

• Wallace Beery as Magua
• Barbara Bedford as Cora Munro
• Lillian Hall as Alice Munro
• Alan Roscoe as Uncas
• Theodore Lorch as Chingachgook
• Harry Lorraine as Hawkeye (aka Natty Bumppo)
• Henry Woodward as Major Heyward
• James Gordon as Colonel Munro
• George Hackathorne as Captain Randolph
• Nelson McDowell as David Gamut
• Jack McDonald as Tamenund
• Sydney Deane as General Webb
• Boris Karloff as an Indian brave (uncredited)
• Joseph Singleton
• Chief Tahachee as an Indian brave (uncredited)