The Deerslayer

Adaptations

Comics

In January 1944 Classic Comics adapted the story for issue 17 of the series.

French comics artist Jean Ache adapted the story into a newspaper comic for Jeudi-Matin in 1949.[7]

Film

1913: The Deerslayer, starring Harry T. Morey and Wallace Reid. Filmed at Otsego Lake, the actual setting of the novel. Filmed in 1911, released two years later.

1920: The Deerslayer and Chingachgook, a German film with Béla Lugosi as Chingachgook. This was the first part of the two-part Lederstrumpf silent film.

1943: Deerslayer, starring Bruce Kellogg and Jean Parker.

1957: The Deerslayer, starring Lex Barker and Rita Moreno.

1967: Chingachgook, die große Schlange, an East German Red Western from DEFA studios, starring Gojko Mitić.

1990: Зверобой, a Soviet version.

1994: Hawkeye (1994 TV series), starring Lee Horsley and Lynda Carter, the 8th episode Out Of The Past tells how Henry March came to kill Natty Bumppo after Judith's death, fifteen years of the events of The Deerslayer.

Radio

In 1932, the Leatherstocking Tales were adapted as a thirteen-part serial radio drama. It is directed and performed by Charles Fredrick Lindsay and contains both Deerslayer and Last of the Mohicans.

TV

A made-for-television film was released in 1978. The film was directed by Richard Friedenberg and starred Steve Forrest as Hawkeye.


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