Griffith was to develop its suspense element with such overwhelming power and Mack Sennett and his "Keystone Kops" to burlesque it so delightfully that it became difficult for any later writers to match them on the printed page. Of all his work it is therefore the one best adapted to the cinema, the medium in which D.W. It is the second which develops the drama of pursuit and escape that Cooper did so outstandingly well. In the order in which they are named here, the first gives us Natty in his youth, the next two in his prime, and the last two in his old age, concluding with his death. His most popular novels however are the "Leatherstocking Tales," of which Natty Bumppo (Deerslayer, Hawkeye, Leatherstocking, and Long Rifle) is the hero: The Deerslayer (1841), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Pathfinder (1840), The Prairie (1827), and The Pioneers (1829). A publicist and a good citizen, he was most interested in the novels like Satanstoe and Home as Found in which his social and political convictions were most fully expressed. In 1822 he moved to New York City, and from 1827 to 1833 he lived in Europe.Ĭooper's idealism and his special skill in describing action impelled him in the direction of romanticism, but the main interests of his life were thoroughly practical, hard-headed, and realistic. He was expelled from Yale for a prank, served in the Navy, became a lawyer, and married Susan DeLancey, the daughter of a Loyalist family. His early schooling was under an Episcopal clergyman, and he was always passionately devoted to Christian orthodoxy, his allegiance to which he expressed freely in his novels. He was born in Burlington, New Jersey, but he is generally associated with Cooperstown, near Oswego Lake, in upper New York State, where his father, Judge William Cooper, was a landed proprietor. With The Spy (1821), The Pioneers (1823), and The Pilot (1824) he discovered for himself and his successors three great fictional worlds: history, the forests and the Indians who inhabited them, and the sea. Like Scott he enjoyed an international vogue both Dumas and Balzac were influenced by him. Note: Dark Cloud, who played a role in the film, in real life was the son of an Algonquin chief.īACKGROUND OF THE SCENARIO: James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), sometimes called "the American Scott," was the first American novelist to win a lasting reputation. Crane, William Russell, Alphonse Ethier, Florence LaBadie (the elder sister), Dark Cloud (father of the last Mohican) Scenario: From the novel of the same name by James Fenimore CooperĬast: James Cruze (Uncas), Frank H. James Cruze (Right) as Uncas dominates this still from Thanhouser's screen dramatization of James Feinmore Cooper's famous novel.
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