James Cooper was a great writer, and very talented with descriptions. This would explain the enormous detail the movie involves, and the powerful views the movie shares with its audiences. The characters consisted of the typical "majors" and "minors." The "majors" included Nathaniel or "Hawkeye," as he's referred to in the movie, Chincagook, the father, Uncas, the last of the Mohican tribe, the Huron warriors (antagonists), Mogua (Leader of the antagonists), and the British officer Duncan and the Colonel Munro, who commanded Fort William Henry.
             I really can't see wasting time summarizing all ten scenes. I can't remember that much detail to work out all that. Basically, I'm going to give my summary of it. It opens with Nathaniel and his father, and Uncas running through the woods, seemly pointless until Nathaniel brings up his rifle and kills the Elk they were chasing, giving the scene an actual point, though, a shot of what they were chasing would have made the scene much more interesting. It then goes to the cabin in the wilderness frontier, where they talk with a local militiaman about the British and French battles.
             We are then taken to the British Fort, the name escapes me at press time, and are shown the conversation between the militia leader and the British General Webb, who is sending a courier to Fort William Henry with a regiment and an Indian guide, hence, Mogua enters. Nathaniel and his 2 shadows are there, over hearing this, and leave ahead of the regiment, heading west to trap and hunt where the land isn't poisoned by the war. On their way to Fort William Henry, the group is attacked when Mogua kills the commanding officer. But Nathaniel and Uncas and Chincagook save the day, they come in guns 'a blazing and take out the Huron war party.
             To keep this from going 3 pages, from there, they go to Fort Willia
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