The Iroquois Trail
The Iroquois Trail is a 1950 American Western film directed by Phil Karlson starring George Montgomery and Brenda Marshall. It is set during the French-Indian War. It is an adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 work The Last of the Mohicans, with significant alterations. As with the book, one of the major plot lines is based on the siege of Fort William Henry and the subsequent massacre.
Plot
In 1757 the French around Montreal are poised to move south. A young American volunteer in the British Army, Sergeant Tom Cutler, is sent northwards carrying a dispatch which orders the garrison of Fort Williams to reinforce the vulnerable Crown Point outpost. Cutler is murdered on the way by two men acting as British scouts, one of whom is an Ogane, a French-allied Huron posing as a Mohawk. Crown Point is not relieved in time and falls to the French.
More details
| author | Richard Schayer |
|---|---|
| director | Phil Karlson |
| editor | Kenneth Crane |
| genre | historical western |
| keywords | act ambush army sergeant british army delaware indian french army general montcalm huron kidnap kill lenape louis-joseph de montcalm mohawk mohawk people montreal murder nat hawkeye cutler natty bumppo odawa ottawa pass quartermaster return home wyandot people |
| musicBy | Rudy Schrager |
| producer | Bernard Small |
| productionCompany | Edward Small Productions |
| publisher | United Artists |
| theme | war |