Randolph Scott (Hawkeye), Binnie Barnes (Alice Munro), Henry Wilcoxon (Major Duncan Heyward), Heather Angel (Cora Munro), Phillip Reed (Uncas), Hugh Buckler (Colonel Munro), Bruce Cabot (Magua), Robert Barrat (Chingachgook), Lumsden Hare Willard Robertson (Captain Winthrop), Frank McGlynn, senior (David Gamut), Will Stanton (Jenkins), William V. Mong (Sacham), Olaf Hytten (King George II), Reginald Barlow (Duke of Newcastle), Lionel Belmore (patrone), Harry Cording (trapper), Art Dupuis (De Levis), Claude King (Duke of Marlborough), John Sutton (British officer), Ian Maclaren (William Pitt), William Stack (General Montcalm).
Director: GEORGE B. SEITZ. Associate director: Wallace Fox. Screenplay: Phillip Dunne. Adapted by John Balderston, Paul Perez and Daniel Moore from the 1826 novel by James Fenimore Cooper. Photography: Robert Planck. Film editors: Jack Dennis, Harry Marker. Music: Roy Webb. Music director: Nathaniel Shilkret. Music orchestrated by: Hugo Friedhofer and Bernhard Kaun. Art director: John DuCasse Schulz. Costumes designed by Franc Smith. Research: Edward P. Lambert. Continuity "girl": Carl Roup. Production supervisor: Harry M. Goetz. Assistant director: John L. Cass. Producer: Edward Small. An Edward Small Production.
Copyright 18 August 1936 by Reliance Productions of California. Released through United Artists: 4 September 1936. New York opening at the Rivoli: 2 September 1936. Australian release: 21 October 1936. 91 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: It's an odd adaptation indeed when a novel's title character is reduced to little more than a bit part and the narrative's other principal figure, the misanthropic Hawkeye, is not only handed a love interest but actually succumbs to this failing.
COMMENT: I know this adaptation has its supporters, and it's true both that Randolph Scott makes a very capable Hawkeye (despite his unwarranted interest in a passing pretty face) and that the movie has its fair share of action.
All the same, to my mind, some familiar players look distinctly uncomfortable as Indians or rough colonials, and, what's worse, neither the direction nor the photography look sufficiently distinguished to do even this drastically pruned and considerably modified version of the novel anything like justice.
Director: GEORGE B. SEITZ. Associate director: Wallace Fox. Screenplay: Phillip Dunne. Adapted by John Balderston, Paul Perez and Daniel Moore from the 1826 novel by James Fenimore Cooper. Photography: Robert Planck. Film editors: Jack Dennis, Harry Marker. Music: Roy Webb. Music director: Nathaniel Shilkret. Music orchestrated by: Hugo Friedhofer and Bernhard Kaun. Art director: John DuCasse Schulz. Costumes designed by Franc Smith. Research: Edward P. Lambert. Continuity "girl": Carl Roup. Production supervisor: Harry M. Goetz. Assistant director: John L. Cass. Producer: Edward Small. An Edward Small Production.
Copyright 18 August 1936 by Reliance Productions of California. Released through United Artists: 4 September 1936. New York opening at the Rivoli: 2 September 1936. Australian release: 21 October 1936. 91 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: It's an odd adaptation indeed when a novel's title character is reduced to little more than a bit part and the narrative's other principal figure, the misanthropic Hawkeye, is not only handed a love interest but actually succumbs to this failing.
COMMENT: I know this adaptation has its supporters, and it's true both that Randolph Scott makes a very capable Hawkeye (despite his unwarranted interest in a passing pretty face) and that the movie has its fair share of action.
All the same, to my mind, some familiar players look distinctly uncomfortable as Indians or rough colonials, and, what's worse, neither the direction nor the photography look sufficiently distinguished to do even this drastically pruned and considerably modified version of the novel anything like justice.