The Deerslayer Schlange", an East German Red Western from DEFA studios, starring Gojko Mitić. 1990: "", a Soviet version. In 1932, the "Leatherstocking Tales" were adapted as a thirteen-part serial radio drama. It is directed and performed by Charles Fredrick Lindsay and contains both "Deerslayer" and "Last of the Mohicans". A made-for-television film was released in 1978. The film was directed by Richard Friedenberg and starred Steve Forrest as Hawkeye. The Deerslayer The Deerslayer, or The First War-path (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and
Oriental Tales about the stories: "They are meant to demonstrate virtuosity. Instead they demonstrate the dangers of imitation." The critic wrote that "the story of Wang-Fo, though rich in content, is 'faux-chinois', pretend-fantastic, coy. It is plainly a clumsy Western exercise in Chinese story telling", while "'The Man Who Loved the Nereids' is, in contrast, as radiant as Madame Yourcenar's mind. Clever, stylish, funny and original, an homage to Greek myth, it links the ancient and the modern worlds." Oriental Tales Oriental Tales () is a 1938 short story collection by the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar. The stories share a self-consciously mythological