The Last of the Mohicans is a 1936 American historical western adventure film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes and Henry Wilcoxon.

During the French and Indian War, Alice and Cora, the two daughters of Colonel Munro, set out from Albany to join their father at his rural fort.

They are escorted by Major Duncan Heyward, who has loved Alice for a long time, and the Huron Indian scout Magua.

He lures Major Heyward and the girls into an ambush, but they are saved by Natty Bumppo, a white frontiersmen known as "Hawk-eye" for his skill with a musket, and the last two surviving members of the Mohican tribe, Chingachgook and his son Uncas.

Hawk-eye sneaks out at night and overhears Magua persuading the Indians to attack the local colonial settlements while they are unprotected.

Colonel Munro refuses to accept Hawk-eye's unsupported word and forbids the colonial militia under his command to leave.

Before Montcalm can stop the fighting, Colonel Munro is fatally wounded, and his daughters are carried off by Magua's war party.

Faced with two men claiming to be Hawk-eye, the enemy chief decides the winner of a shooting contest must be the real one, and he is proved right.

Ours was a full-blooded screenplay, combining adventure and excitement with what we considered some respectable poetry in the love story between the patrician English girl and the young Mohican brave.

[5]Dunne said that production of the film was postponed due to casting problems; he and Balderstone went away and by the time they came back shooting had started.

I don't know what writers he had hired, but they had succeeded in turning our authentic eighteenth century period piece into a third-rate Western.

The film served as the basis for a subsequent 1992 adaptation written and directed by Michael Mann and starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye, Madeleine Stowe as Cora, Wes Studi as Magua, Russell Means as Chingachgook, and Steven Waddington as Duncan.