The Deerslayer and Chingachgook
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The Deerslayer and Chingachgook is the feature-length first part of the two-part 1920 German adventure film Lederstrumpf (Leatherstocking), directed by Arthur Wellin
and featuring Béla Lugosi
. It is based on the novel The Deerslayer
by James Fenimore Cooper
. The second part was The Last of the Mohicans
(Der Letzte der Mohikaner).
for many years, a print of Lederstrumpf, in its heavily edited U.S. release version titled The Deerslayer, was eventually discovered, and became available on DVD in the 1990s.
Arthur Wellin
Arthur Wellin was a German film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. He directed 18 films between 1916 and 1927. He also appeared in 11 films between 1915 and 1933. He was born in Berlin, Germany....
and featuring Béla Lugosi
Béla Lugosi
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó , commonly known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian actor of stage and screen. He was best known for having played Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version, as well as having starred in several of Ed Wood's low budget films in the last years of his...
. It is based on the novel The Deerslayer
The Deerslayer
The Deerslayer, or The First Warpath was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo...
by James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo...
. The second part was The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans (German film)
The Last of the Mohicans is the feature-length second part of the two-part 1920 German adventure film Lederstrumpf directed by Arthur Wellin and featuring Bela Lugosi. It is based on James Fenimore Cooper's novel of the same name...
(Der Letzte der Mohikaner).
Preservation status
Believed to be lost filmLost film
A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...
for many years, a print of Lederstrumpf, in its heavily edited U.S. release version titled The Deerslayer, was eventually discovered, and became available on DVD in the 1990s.
Cast
- Emil Mamelok - Deerslayer
- Herta Heden - Judith Hutter
- Béla LugosiBéla LugosiBéla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó , commonly known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian actor of stage and screen. He was best known for having played Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version, as well as having starred in several of Ed Wood's low budget films in the last years of his...
- ChingachgookChingachgookChingachgook was a fictional character in four of James Fenimore Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, a lone Mohican chief and companion of the series' hero Natty Bumppo. Chingachgook married Wah-ta-Wah who bore him a son Uncas, but she died young. Uncas, at his birth "last of the Mohicans" grew... - Gottfried Kraus - Tom Hutter
- Edward Eyseneck - Worley
- Margot Sokolowska - Wah-ta-Wah
- Frau Rehberger - Judith Hutter
- Willy Schroeder - Hartherz
- Herr Söhnlein - Col. Munro
- Heddy Sven - Cora Munro
- Frau Wenkhaus - Alice Munro