The Deerslayer is a 1957 American Western film in CinemaScope and Color by De Luxe, directed by Kurt Neumann and written by Carroll Young, Neumann and an uncredited Dalton Trumbo.

The film stars Lex Barker, Rita Moreno, Forrest Tucker, Cathy O'Donnell, Jay C. Flippen and Carlos Rivas.

Frontiersman Deerslayer and his Mohican blood brother Chingachgook are attacked by a scout for a Huron war party.

Deerslayer and Chingachgook, cannot understand why the Hurons have gone on the warpath so far west of the white settlements.

Harry tells them that he is making for a floating fort moored in the middle of Lake Otsego, on which old Tom Hutter and his two daughters, Judith and Hetty, live.