The Last of the Mohicans (1920 American film) The Last of the Mohicans (1920 American film) The Last of the Mohicans is a 1920 American film adapted from James Fenimore Cooper's novel of the same name. Clarence Brown and Maurice Tourneur directed an adaption by Robert 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, Lillian Hall and Alan Roscoe. The film was well received at the time of its release. Film historian William K. Everson considers "The Last of the Mohicans" to
The Last of the Mohicans his 1992 version was based more on the 1936 film version. Mann believes Cooper's novel is "not a very good book", taking issue with Cooper's sympathy for the Euro-Americans and their seizure of the American Indians' domain. In Germany, "Der Letzte der Mohikaner", with Béla Lugosi as Chingachgook, was the second part of the two-part "Lederstrumpf" film released in 1920. "Der letzte Mohikaner" directed by Harald Reinl was a 1965 West German/Italian/Spanish co-production setting elements of the story in the post American Civil War era. Based on the same series of the novels, "Chingachgook die große Schlange" ("Chingachgook the Great