The Last of Mohicans (film, 1992)

Synopsis

The screen of film is held in 1757, into full War of conquest, in the state of New York. On the American continent, the French, supported by the Huron , fights against the Britanniques, helped by the Mohicans. It is the Guerre Seven Year old.

Nathaniel, European raised among Mohicans, safe with the assistance of his adoptive father and brother, the officer protected Duncan Heyward and his two, Cora and Alice Munro. Those were indeed to join their father, ordering Strong William Henry, colonel Monroe. The officer and his company fall into an ambush set-up by their guide, Huron named Magua, being made pass for Mowhak. At this point in time Nathaniel, or " Eye of faucon" (such as it is called) intervenes to save the British. Then the three companions decide to escort them, but they find as of their arrival taken with part in this historical conflict.

Data sheet

Title: the Last of Mohicans
original Title: The Last off the Mohicans
Realization: Michael Mann
Scenario: John L. Balderston according to the novel of James Fenimore Cooper the last of the mohicans
Image: Dante Spinotti
Music: Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman (contributions of Ciaran Brennan and Dougie Maclean)
Production: Hunt Lowry and Michael Mann (Morgan Creek Productions)
Country of origin: The United States
Coming out date: August 26th 1992 (France)
Format: Colors - 2,35:1 (Cinemascope)
Kind: Adventure, drama, War
Lasted: 108 minutes

Distribution

Daniel Day-Lewis: Hawkeye (Nathanael Poe)
Madeleine Stowe: Cora Munro
Russell Means : Chingachgook
Eric Schweig: Uncas
Jodhi May : Alice Munro
Maurice Roëves: Colonel Edmund Munro
Wes Studi: Magua
Patrice Chéreau: General Montcalm
Pete Postlethwaite: Captain Beams
Edward Blatchford: Jack Winthrop
Terry Kinney: John Cameron
Tracey Ellis: Alexandra Cameron
Justin Mr. Rice: James Cameron
Refusals Banks: Ongewasgone
Mac Andrews: General Webb
Malcolm Storry: Phelps
David Schofield: the Sergeant major
Steven Waddington: Heyward
Colm Meaney : Major Ambrose
Dylan Baker: Captain of Bougainville

Around film

the film of Michael Mann is the ninth adaptation (cinema & television) of the famous novel of James Fenimore Cooper published in 1826. The first date of 1911, and most known are those of Clarence Brown and Maurice Tourneur in 1920, that of George B. Seitz in 1936 and that of James L. Conway in 1977.

Trevor Jones was in the beginning the single type-setter of film. However, following dissensions with Michael Mann, it left before to have even finished the musics of film. This task was thus entrusted to Randy Edelman. This double composition was rewarded all the same while being nominated with the Golden Globes for the best music.

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