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
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