The Deerslayer (1957 film)

The Deerslayer
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Kurt Neumann
Screenplay by	Carroll Young Kurt Neumann Dalton Trumbo (uncredited)
Based on	The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
Produced by	Kurt Neumann
Starring	Lex Barker Rita Moreno Forrest Tucker Cathy O'Donnell Jay C. Flippen Carlos Rivas
Cinematography	Karl Struss
Edited by	Jodie Copelan
Music by	Paul Sawtell Bert Shefter
Production company	20th Century Fox
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	September 10, 1957 (1957-09-10)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Deerslayer is a 1957 American Western film in CinemaScope and Color by De Luxe, directed by Kurt Neumann and written by Carroll Young, Neumann and an uncredited Dalton Trumbo. The film stars Lex Barker, Rita Moreno, Forrest Tucker, Cathy O'Donnell, Jay C. Flippen and Carlos Rivas. It is based on the 1841 novel The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper.^[1][2][3] The film was released on September 10, 1957, by 20th Century Fox.

Plot[]

The story begins when the frontiersman Deerslayer (Lex Barker) and his Mohican blood brother Chingachgook (Carlos Rivas) are attacked by a scout for a Huron war party. Despatching the Huron, they hear war whoops coming from the river and come across a white trader, Harry March (Forrest Tucker) in a canoe being chased by the war party, also in canoes. They help Harry drive off the war party. This is something that puzzles Deerslayer and Chingachgook, who can’t understand why the Hurons have gone on the warpath so far west of the white settlements. But they have done and Harry tells them he is making for a floating fort moored in the middle of Lake Otsego, on which live old Tom Hutter (Jay C. Flippen) and his two daughters, Judith (Cathy O’Donnell) and Hetty (Rita Moreno) and Harry needs the help of Deerslayer and Chingachgook to get the girls to safety in Albany. On arrival at the fort and offering their help because there is a band of Hurons coming down river, The Deerslayer and Chingachgook are shunned by old Tom, who not only knows the reason why the Hurons are about to attack, but is also anxious to hide from them a sinister secret…a secret that, if left unresolved, could destroy them all…!

Cast[]

• Lex Barker as Deerslayer
• Rita Moreno as Hetty Hutter
• Forrest Tucker as Harry March
• Cathy O'Donnell as Judith Hutter
• Jay C. Flippen as Old Tom Hutter
• Carlos Rivas as Chingachgook
• Joseph Vitale as Huron chief
• John Halloran as Old Warrior

References[]

External links[]

• The Deerslayer at IMDb

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