The Film Daily (1920)

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As. photography it is the best^ the most beautiful that moving pictures .,„. ever shown— this picture. The K of the Mohicans." M-nrlce Tour»e«r never made such = b before. re^ev^brarthlm ifsomethin, ^ guensseab^ut these long Winter eve •-v. t>.a f-omDositions he maKes 01 and ? this is not great art. then Rem branddo tMngs wuf sTnlightTthUartnyoUu cannot dream. anS if he could gunt suvci o • vour vouth hand in with your soul, for the story i* the plain Mle of the Leather Stock ng classic; not by marvelous s ubtmes. for they are short and merely I'tting. but^y this thnlghe has mastered. ^Agafnsfthe dream cliffs and falling wreaks of water in Yellowstone and TJain before painted curtains as in -Treasure island." he puts his node and gleaming savages through their Pace*& circling swirling $™\£* lovely Cora Munro. her fair hair sister. her hero Uncas her canny crack shot Hawkeye, and her foul PUIuhoughgthaere are good names in thf SSS'f Um personalities are kept out no names are posted no faces featured; everything subordinated to the illusion, to the come-back of your youthful thrills which Tourneur was hunting. ,,__ n»rrv Magna, the fiend, is Wallac* B eery Uncas, the blameless ^^/Lauty coe; Cora is Barbara Bedford, a beauty who is new but a real actress, and Hawkeye is Harry K*™^ ™e£ come and go. there are thrills when ^hundreds of *»*«»«« *r™ massacre the women and children when Chingachgook and Magna have their duel; when Uncas shoots a crippled Huron out of the tree tops; when Beery, Roscoe and Miss Bedford fight on the lip of the thousand-foot cliff. There are all the thrills you .can stand, but. more than that, there , u the unearthly beauty of the photography itself; an achievement that will be remembered, Mr. Tourneur! * * * &*&& "AN ACHIEVEMENT THAT WILL BE REMEMBERED, MR. TOURNEUR!" — THE CHICAGO HERALD and EXAMINER Maurice Tourneur presents THE LAST OP THE MOHICANS An American Drama Eternal by James Fenimore Cooper Directed ByJiiaurice tourneur and Clarence L.Brown MAURICE TOURNEUR J. PARKER READ JR. THOMAS H.INCE MACK SENNETT . MARSHALL NEILAN ALLAN DWAN GEORGE LOANE TUCKER Associated Producers Inc. HOME OFFICES: 729 SEVENTH AVE., NEW YORK CITY tit&smti