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Michael Mann’s The Last Of The Mohicans premieres. Adapted by Mann and Christopher Crowe from James Fenimore Cooper’s novel as well as Philip Dunne’s screenplay from the 1936 version, the film is set in 1757 during the French and Indian War in the British colony of New York. Daniel Day Lewis stars as the white adopted son of a Mohican chief 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. As much a heartbreaking love story as a historical drama, the film’s bravura final minutes, featuring a wordless, bloody confrontation on a mountainous precipice, is spine-tingling, lump-in-the-throat cinema at its finest. An enduring classic.
