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THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS opens. Directed by MIchael Mann, adapted by Mann and Christopher Crowe from James Fenimore Cooper’s novel as well as Philip Dunne’s screenplay from the 1936 version. Set in colonial America in 1757 during the French Indian war, Daniel Day Lewis stars as a Mohican-adopted frontiersman who is reluctantly drawn into the conflict when he rescues two British women and an officer from an ambush orchestrated by a renegade Indian guide. Dazzling, handsomely mounted historical/romance epic memorable for a bravura final minutes played out on a mountain precipice.
