The Last of the Mohicans (1971 BBC TV production) battle scene

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Not to be confused with the 1992 Michael Mann feature, this definitive TV adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans originally aired in the U.S. on PBS Masterpiece Theatre and is widely considered the version most faithful to James Fenimore Cooper's novel.

Produced by the BBC, this eight-part production stars John Abineri in an Emmy-nominated performance as the Mohican Indian Chingachgook and Kenneth Ives as the intrepid frontier scout Hawkeye. In 1757, during the French and Indian War, half-sisters Cora and Alice Munro set out to join their father, the British Commander of Fort William Henry. After they are betrayed by the villainous Huron Magua, the sisters are rescued by Hawkeye, whose efforts to lead them to safety are aided by Chingachgook and his son Uncas.

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• James Fenimore Cooper
• French and Indian War
• Masterpiece Theatre
• BBC
• British mini-series
• John Abineri
• Kenneth Ives
• TV

[Koofuku1ce]

ho ho hoo ho ho ho ho hoo ho ho hoo ho ho ho ho hoo !

[TheBrautigans]

I don't understand what would possess you to make a film like this if you had such a blatantly low budget... It's just fucking stupid... xD

[ShawDAMAN]

@Andrew60ish .....I can watch BBC period dramas many times without tiring of them, while most of my compatriots yearn for the next lame CGI blockbuster with Megan Fox or Tom Cruise. Sigh. You're quite right about 'war of the worlds,' and don't get me started on what they are doing to Sherlock Holmes. Poor Arthur Conan Doyle, he must really be whirling in his grave.

[ShawDAMAN]

@Andrew60ish Agreed. I'm not really anti-American either (considering that I am an American, haha) very, very few worthy book adaptations have ever come out of this country. IMO the BBC is not what it once was but historically, and particularly since the 60's (when the decline of American media really began) has been vastly better at book adaptations and in general for that matter......

[Andrew60ish]

@ShawDAMAN Thanks for that, sanity at last! I'm not really anti-American but it's incredible how they can take a classic story, spend millions and millions and still really screw it up! Take 'the War of the Worlds', maybe one day someone will make a proper adaptation of that, set in southern England in the 19th century. Fat chance.

[ShawDAMAN]

@Andrew60ish THANK YOU. It doesn't make a complete mockery of a very good book, and doesn't have incongruous celtic music blaring the whole time, so people don't like it I suppose. Far far closer to the book; I imagine many of the still-active fanatics of the 1992 version don't even comprehend how little sense the storyline makes in that 'adaptation.'

[EVISEH]

@Andrew60ish Unfortunately, there will always be the trolls, the ignorant, the morons whose only purpose in life is to troll the web &/or you tube and post their ignorant and invariably spiteful comments. And generally speaking the comments these morons make are simply not worth responding too. As the old saying goes, don't give them any oxygen and they soon fade away It's one reason why I dont make it a habit to read posted comments Why spoil my enjoyment of the clip reading them!

[Andrew60ish]

Watch the series and notice how the natives refer to the English as 'Yengies' a corruption of the french word 'Anglais'. Yengies was in turn corrupted into Yankees, so when North Americans call themselves 'Yankees' they are really calling themselves English hahaha. I spose the Mohican slogan might have been 'Yengies go home'.

[Andrew60ish]

I wonder how many people who commented here have actually seen the the whole series of eight programs. The acting is superb, the locations are stunning and the story sticks faithfully to the original book. The series wasn't made to make any comment on the treatment of native Americans, or to try and give a politacally correct view of history. It was just made to tell a story and it did this wonderfully. The lack of the American accent, which didn't exist then, is very refreshing.

[Topsage007]

Its a tradition for these westerners to make native people turn against each other

[JesseLucilaoh99]

ehm i am ur girl toy

[Snigermunken]

Sound like its a bunch on dogs barking