Letzte Mohikaner, Der

Der letzte Mohikaner (West Germany · Spain · Italy 1965 / Director: Harald Reinl)

Also known as

The Last Tomahawk (USA) | El último mohicano (Spain) | La valle delle ombre rosse (Italy) | Le Dernier des Mohicans (France) | De laatste Mohikaan (Belgium) | De sista mohikanerna (Sweden) | Poslední Mohykán (Czechoslovakia) | Ostatni Mohikanin (Poland) | Poslednji Mohikanac (Yugoslavia, Serbo-Croatian) | El valle de los cuchillos largos (Argentina) | A Vingança dos Moicanos (Brazil) | 夕陽のモヒカン族 (Japan)

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Synopsis

American Southwest, second half of the nineteenth century: Two young women, sisters Cora and Alice, are on their way to a remote fort named after and commanded by their father, Colonel Munroe. Their trek, led by brave but bland Captain Bill Heyward, makes only slow progress crossing desolate desert land. From a courier supposedly sent by the sisters’ father they learn that Mingo renegades and white bandits are besieging Fort Munroe. The messenger—in truth none other than Mingo chief Magua—claims to know a shorter passage but aims to lure the trek into a deadly trap and take Cora and Alice as hostages. Help is at hand from a white hunter who goes by the sobriquet Hawkeye and his blood brother Uncas, who, after his father, Chingachgook, was killed by Magua, is the last Mohican. (German version)

Credits

• Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger (Captain Bill Heyward), Karin Dor (Cora Munroe), Marie France (Alice Munroe), Carl Lange (Colonel Munroe), Ricardo Rodrí­guez (Magua/Paoway), Kurt Großkurth (cook), Daniel Martín (Uncas), Anthony Steffen (Hawkeye), Ángel Ter (Jeff), Stelio Candelli (Roger, bandit leader), Mariano Halcón (Indian chief), Jean-Claude Mathieu (Henry, young man), Cris Huerta (Sergeant Gordo), Rafael Hernández, Carlos Deschamps, Mike Brendel (Chingachgook), Leandro San José (Max, scout), Martín Díaz, Víctor Bayo, José Aquilino Montoya (Indian brave)
• Also with: Frank [Francisco] Braña (corporal)
• Complete German (ger) acting-credits: Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Dor, Marie France, Carl Lange, Ricardo Rodriguez, Kurt Grosskurth, Dan Martin, Anthony Steffens [sic]
• Complete Italian (ita) acting-credits: Anthony Steffen, Karin Dor, Dan Martin, Marie France, Stanley Kent, Joachim Fucshberger [sic], Mel Mature, Charles Lang, Angel Ter, Kurt Grosskart [sic], Peter Ortiz
• Complete Spanish (spa) acting-credits: Daniel Martin, Karin Dor, Joachim Fuchsberger, Ricardo Rodriguez, Antonio de Teffe, Marie France, Angel Ter, Stelio Candelli, Carl Lange, Mariano Halcon, Kurt Grosskurth, Jean Mathieu, Cris Huerta, Rafael Hernandez, Carlos Deschamps, Mike Brendel, Leandro San Jose, Martin Diaz, Victor Bayo, Antonio Montoya

• Director: Harald Reinl
• Story: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
• Screenplay: Joachim Bartsch (ger), Joachim Bartah (ita), Jose [José] Antonio de la Loma (spa), Roberto Bianchi Montero, Giovanni Simonelli
• Cinematography: Ernst [W.] Kalinke (ger), Frank Marin [Francisco Marí­n] (ita), Ricardo Andreu (spa), Giuseppe La Torre [Eastmancolor, Techniscope]
• Music: Peter Thomas (ger, ita, spa), Francesco De Masi (international version)
• Producers: Alfons Carcasona (ger), Franz Thierry (ger, ita), Heinz Willeg (ger), Eduardo de la Fuente (spa)

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Trivia

• One of two adaptations of James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Last of the Mohicans (1826) that were released in 1965. The other one was Uncas, el fin de una raza (“Uncas, the end of an ethnic group”), a Spanish-Italian co-production directed by Mateo Cano, hewing closer to the literary source. Spanish actor Daniel Martín portrayed Uncas, the novel’s penultimate Mohican, in both films.
• In Cooper’s novel, the colonel and his two daughters’ surname is spelled Munro; inexplicably, The Last Tomahawk opts for “Munroe.” For obvious reasons, however, Reinl’s film, set in the nineteenth century, demotes the book’s British Major Duncan Heyward to U.S. Army Captain Bill Heyward—who, confusingly, is a newly arrived Englishman (German dub).
• Thomas Eckelmann, the voice actor who, from Last of the Renegades in 1964 onward, provided the German dub for Pierre Brice’s Winnetou in seven of the series’ eleven movies, was chosen to dub Daniel Martín in his role of “noble savage” Uncas—hardly coincidentally. Horst Niendorf, Lex Barker’s German voice in six films, including Treasure of Silver Lake, dubbed Anthony Steffen, whose stiff portrayal of Cooper’s charismatic hero Hawkeye marked his first foray into the genre—with more than twenty Westerns to follow.

Versions and runtimes

• Runtime: approx. 90 min

Release dates

• April 16, 1965 (West Germany)
• April 22, 1965 (Italy, censura: December 31, 1964)

Filming locations

• Almería (Andalusia, Spain)
• Cuenca (Castilla—La Mancha, Spain)

Dubbing

• German version: Horst Niendorf: Anthony Steffen (Hawkeye), Thomas Eckelmann: Daniel Martín (Uncas), Marianne Lutz: Marie France (Alice Munroe), Curt Ackermann: Carl Lange (Colonel Munroe), Gerd Duwner: Ricardo Rodrí­guez (Magua), Rainer Brandt: Stelio Candelli (Roger), Curt Ackermann: Mariano Halcón (Indian chief)

External links

• Mon nom est Personne : les images du western spaghetti (French)
• Review by 800 SW (Spanish)
• Filmportal.de (English/German)
• Archivio del cinema italiano dell’ANICA (Italian)

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