Last Of The Mohicans (1936)

[Mulebrain]

Has anyone seen this first version? How about on DVD? It sure looks interesting! I just really don't buy VHS anymore.

 

[Kiltiemon]

I've enjoyed it! Should be part of anyone's collection.

Jim aka kiltiemon

 

[Gary]

Do a search and you'll find a thread about all the mistakes or oversights in the movie. Suppose to be a motor home that appears in the distant background in one scene. Still, if I found it cheap enough, I'd buy it - the DVD, not the motorhome.

 

[2172]

they showed it to us in Boy Scout Camp in 1944..Hank

 

[MikeChapin]

Actually not the first one. I saw about twenty minutes of a silent version a few years back on TCM. It was pretty late and I started dozing off so I went to bed.

The major thing I remember about it was that it had Wallace Berry as Magua.

 

[ashleywyoung]

This is a link to the Internet Movie Database's information on The Last of the Mohicans: http://www.imdb.com/find?q=The%20Last%20of%20the%20Mohicans;s=all . It lists both versions being discussed here as well as all the rest and may even provide links to sites where these versions can be purchased.

 

This is a link to the Internet Movie Database's information on The Last of the Mohicans: http://www.imdb.com/find?q=The%20Last%20of%20the%20Mohicans;s=all . It lists both versions being discussed here as well as all the rest and may even provide links to sites where these versions can be purchased.

I like that the listing blurb starts with:
"Plot Summary: In the year 1775, Fort William Henry on Lake George is under siege by the French and Hurons under General..."

Oops....

 

[musketman]

 

[Mulebrain]

Ahh, silk is good for another 40yds!

 

[Story]

1775, 1757 .. 220, 221 Volts, whatever it takes...

Totally tangential, this 1902 book THE MAID AT ARMS is online in it's entirety. RevWar, lotsa gratuitous violence, something you can load onto your laptop and read on the beach this summer...

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/2/2/7/12279/12279.txt

Pour example,

Straight into the stupefied ranks of the Caughnawaga company came
leaping the savages, shooting, stabbing, clubbing the dazed men,
dragging them from the ranks with shrieks of triumph. I saw one
half-naked creature, awful in his paint, run up and strike a soldier
full in the face with his fist, then dash out his brains with a
death-maul and tear his scalp off.

Murphy and Mount were loading and firing steadily; Elerson and I kept
our rifles ready for a rush. I was perfectly stunned; the spectacle did
not seem real to me.

The Caughnawaga men, apparently roused from their momentary stupor, fell
back into small squads, shooting in every direction; and the savages,
unable to withstand a direct fire, sheered off and came bounding past us
to cover, yelping like timber-wolves. Three darted directly at us; a
young warrior, painted in bars of bright yellow, raised his hatchet to
hurl it; but Murphy's bullet spun him round like a top till he crashed
against a tree and fell in a heap, quivering all over.

The two others had leaped on Mount. Swearing, threatening, roaring with
rage, the desperate giant shook them off into our midst, and cut the
throat of one as he lay sprawling--a sickening spectacle, for the poor
wretch floundered and thrashed about among the leaves and sticks,
squirting thick blood all over us.

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