The Iroquois Trail - (1950)

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Год: 1950
Создатель кинофильма: Фил Карлсон
Перевод : Дубляж
Длительность: 85 мин. / 01:25
Рейтинг: 82.4
Актёры: Гленн Ланган, еджинальд Денни, Бренда Маршалл, Джордж Монтгомери, Монте Блу, Пол Кэвэна, Холмс Херберт, Шелдон Леонард, Дэн О’Херлихи, Джон Дусетт
Страна: США
Имя фильма: The Iroquois Trail
Описание фильма: Ive seen Leonard in other pictures and enjoyed his work, but then the parts Ive seen him in were more suited to his middle class New York Jewish upbringing. He played a lot of thugs and heavies in forties crime series, including the Thin Man, Falcon and Joe Palooka series, but he also got odd parts in classics like To Have and Have Not and Its a Wonderful Life. I dont remember that he ever played a role as inappropriate as this one, but he was cast in it and he certainly gave it a shot. I dont even blame him because hes memorable in his portrayal, but he should never have been cast as a Native American. Ironically, Jay Silverheels had just begun to break the mould in popular culture as the first real Native American star, even if it was through playing Tonto, the Lone Rangers stereotypical sidekick. It doesnt help that whenever Ogane goes back to his tribe, we watch him talk to them but, after hes fired them up into a frenzy, we cut to overt stock footage of whoopin and hollerin. This and poor rear projection shots hurt the film.
Monte Blue does better as Sagamore but thats mostly because he was more appropriate for the role. He started in Hollywood back in the teens and worked as an extra or stuntman in early films as important as The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance. He grew to play romantic leads opposite many of the leading ladies of the day, like Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Gloria Swanson and Clara Bow. He was memorable in Orphans of the Storm and White Shadows in the South Seas, amongst a long list of credits. By this point in his career, hed made over two hundred and fifty movies, which span the map of genres and include titles as prominent as Dodge City, The Mask of Dimitrios and Key Largo, but he was increasingly cast in westerns. All that I knew, but what I didnt realise until now was that Monte Blue was really Gerard Montgomery Bluefeather, at least a quarter Native American, given that his father was half French and half Cherokee or Osage. Monte Blue brought a grounding, patience and tolerance to this picture that was sorely needed.

Wikipedia may say that George Montgomery was born on 29th August, 1916, but his gravestone says the 27th, so Ill go by that. Ive too few Montgomerys under my belt, but I wrote in my review of Masterson of Kansas that he was known not only for westerns, but also for playing iconic characters in them. In that film, directed by William Castle before his gimmick days, he was Bat Masterson, a legendary Sheriff of Dodge City. He also played Pat Garrett, one of the Ringo Gang and even the Lone Ranger in a serial made long before the TV show in 1938 (well, sort of). I focused instead on the year of 1950, in which he played a couple of famous trappers: he was the title character in Davy Crockett, Indian Scout, and here he played Hawkeye, the hero of James Fenimore Coopers pentalogy generally known as the Leatherstocking Tales. While this film does follow the general sweep of the most famous of them, The Last of the Mohicans, its far from an adaptation, not least because it changes most of the names and leaves out the title character entirely.
The novel was a historical romance, written in 1826 but set in 1757 during what North Americans call the French and Indian War but Europeans the Seven Years War. Most of it is spent in the wilderness of upper New York. The French, under the command of General Montcalm, are besieging the British garrison of Fort William Henry on Lake George, but the daughters of Colonel George Munro, the forts commander, are on their way to him, accompanied by a relief column led by Major Duncan Heywood. Both sides in this conflict are reliant on Native American allies but Magua, the guide for those reinforcements, is a traitor whos working for the French and he tries to lead the British into danger. Luckily they meet up with the frontiersman, Natty Bumppo; his travelling companion, Chingachgook; and the latters son, Uncas, the titular last of the Mohicans. From there, the novel involves deception and disguise, intrigue and action, battle and massacre. Its one of the most popular and enduring works of American fiction.
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