Wallace Beery, sprayed in a striking light-and-dark paint combo, takes on the role of Magua, the treacherous Indian in this silent adaptation of J. Fenimore Cooper's novel from Maurice Tourneur (with help from his protégé, Clarence Brown). Although improbably cast, Beery makes an agreeably boo-able villain whose sole purpose in life seems to be to ravish at least one of the fetching Munro sisters as they make their perilous way to their father's encampment. Plenty of incident and action in this briskly paced flick that builds to a literally cliffhanging finale.
Review of The Last of the Mohicans
