在这部最后一个莫希干人剧情/冒险片中,这是一部十分优秀的无声电影，改编自Fenimore Cooper的同名小说，它承接了格利菲斯的《一个国家的诞生》发展而来的叙述和剪接手法，通过讲述一个民族的毁灭，批判了战争对于人类的情感和理智的伤害。影片以爱情作为核心内容，从而展现了人与人之间复杂的爱很情愁和土著人的自由、热情、坚毅、勇敢；细腻和详尽的叙事手法在默片时期显得十分突出。该片的导演之一Clarence Brown曾经担任另一位导演的Maurice Tourneur的助手和剪辑师，主要拍摄了片中的室外场景，Maurice Tourneur则拍摄了所有室内场景。该片以其优异的摄影，微妙的光影变换和影调效果，以及非常接近原著的改编，而受到众多影迷的推崇。
As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son Uncas, the last of the Mohican tribe, and their white ally, the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Hawkeye.
