The Last of the Mohicans (1936 film) Hawkeye's characterisation as a younger, romantic lead who develops a relationship with Cora after she rejects the proposal of Duncan. The Last of the Mohicans (1936 film) The Last of the Mohicans is a 1936 American adventure film based on the novel "The Last of the Mohicans" by James Fenimore Cooper. It was directed by George B. Seitz and stars Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes and Henry Wilcoxon. During the French and Indian War, Alice (Binnie Barnes) and Cora Munro (Heather Angel), the two daughters of Colonel Munro (Hugh Buckler), commander of a British fort, set out from Albany to join
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