James Fenimore Cooper

Nacimiento : 1789-09-15, Burlington, New Jersey, USA

Muerte : 1851-09-14

Historia

James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonist and Indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune. He lived much of his boyhood and the last fifteen years of life in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William Cooper on property that he owned. Courtesy of Wikipedia.

Películas

El último explorador
Novel
Durante la guerra entre ingleses y franceses, los indios mohicanos luchan por defender sus territorios, pero están en medio de la disputa. Además, algunas tribus enemigas se han unido a los europeos en su labor exterminadora de los últimos representantes de los mohicanos.
El último mohicano
Novel
En 1757, a orillas del río Hudson, tropas francesas e inglesas luchan por el dominio de la región. Los ingleses reclutan a los granjeros asentados en esas tierras para formar un ejército capaz de enfrentarse a las tropas franco-indias. Hawkeye -Ojo de halcón- (Daniel Day-Lewis) es un hombre blanco adoptado por los indios mohicanos que vive con su padre (Russell Means) y su hermano Uncas (Eric Schweig). Tras rescatar de una emboscada de los hurones a Cora Munro (Madeleine Stowe) y a su hermana pequeña Alice (Jodhi May), hijas de un oficial británico, los tres deciden acompañarlas al fuerte inglés William Henry, que está siendo asediado por franceses y hurones. Allí les obligan a quedarse con un grupo de británicos que acaban de llegar de las colonias...
The Deerslayer
Novel
Wild West adventures in this action movie based on famous "The Deerslayer" novel by James Fenimore Cooper.
El último mohicano
Novel
Una versión animada de la clásica aventura en la naturaleza de James Fenimore Cooper durante la Guerra Francesa e India en la América colonial. Hawkeye está en su mejor momento como el famoso explorador que rescata a las hijas del Comandante de un fuerte fronterizo.
The Pathfinder
Novel
Wild West adventures in this action movie based on famous "The Pathfinder" novel by James Fenimore Cooper.
The Deerslayer
Novel
Hawkeye and Chingachcook attempt to rescue the daughter of a chief who was captured by raiders from a rival tribe.
The Last of the Mohicans
Writer
An animated adaptation of the classic story. A young scout is befriended by a tribe of Mohawks.
Chingachgook: The Great Snake
Novel
Chingachgook, a Mohawk-born Delaware warrior, strives to rescue his wife Wahtawah from the clutches of an enemy camp of Huron. Joined by his trusted huntsman Deerslayer, the two confront racist pioneers and brutal British soldiers in their quest. Deerslayer catches the desire of Judith and thus the jealousy of her suitor, Harry. The action of the story functions like a seesaw, characters continuously traveling back and forth between a house on the lake and the Huron camp until the violent climax.
Uncas, el fin de una raza
Novel
En pleno 1675, las tropas francesas del marqués de Montcalm sitian el fuerte Henry, donde se encuentran las tropas británicas comandadas por el coronel Munro.
The Deerslayer
Novel
After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a Mohican chief, save trader Harry Marsh from the hostile Huron Indians, they learn that the Hurons will attack Old Tom Hutter and his two daughters, Hetty and Judith, who live on a floating raft fort on the river.
The Pathfinder
Novel
Pathfinder, un hombre blanco criado por los indios mohicanos, une fuerzas con el ejército británico para vengarse de los guerreros mingo y los franceses, que han traído la muerte y el saqueo a su pueblo.
The Iroquois Trail
Novel
An American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the French and Indian War.
The Prairie
Story
The Prairie is set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. Hoping to find their destiny in the new territory, the Bush Family heads southward in a covered wagon. Sharing the family's numerous dangers and hardships are Ellen Wade (Lenore Aubert), sole survivor of an Indian attack, and army mapmaker Paul Hover (Alan Baxter). Cousins Abiram (Russ Vincent) and Asa (Jack Mitchum) duke it out over Ellen's affections
Last of the Redmen
Story
A family-oriented adaption of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." As the French-Indian War rages across the untamed territory of the Great Northwest, the embattled wilderness gives birth to a legend -- the proud legend of "The Last of the Red Men." August, 1757, General Montcalm and his Iroquois alalies are on the war path -- and General Munro fears for the lives of his children as they travel to join him at Fort William Henry. Although Munro dispatches a letter urging them to take refuge at Fort Edward until the road is safe, an Iroquois scout intercepts the warning. So Major Duncan Hayward, handsomely portrayed by Jon Hall, is unaware of the danger as he escorts Alice Munro (Evelyn Ankers), her sister Cora (Julie Bishop), and her young brother Davy (Buzz Henry) from the sanctuary of the fort. When their guide Magua, a vengeful Iroquois played by Buster Crabbe, betrays them, only one man can save the travelers from his savage trap. Starring Jon Hall and Michael O'Shea.
The Deerslayer
Novel
El cazador de ciervos, un hombre blanco que fue criado por los mohicanos, ayuda a su antigua tribu cuando los hurones secuestran a la princesa Wah Tah, la prometida de su amigo Jingo-Good.
The Pioneers
Story
A frontiersman leads a group of pioneers to their destination in the Old West and then helps them settle it.
El último mohicano
Novel
Una de las primeras adaptaciones del clásico de Fenimore Cooper. La acción transcurre durante la guerra franco-india (1754-1763). Relata la masacre, perpetrada por los hurones y consentida por los franceses, de soldados angloamericanos prisioneros, sus mujeres y criados. Además los hurones secuestran a las dos hijas del comandante inglés, a cuyo rescate acudirá último mohicano.
The Last of the Mohicans
Novel
Natty Bumppo, known as Hawk-Eye, is a frontiersman in the American wilderness. Together with his Indian friends Chingachgook and Uncas, he fights battles against nefarious white soldiers as well as the vicious Indian Magua and his cohorts.
El Ultimo Mohicano
Novel
Adaptación de la novela homónima del escritor norteamericano James Fenimore Cooper. Las hijas de un oficial británico son secuestradas durante una guerra que enfrenta a Francia e Inglaterra. Los últimos representantes de la tribu de los mohicanos y Ojo de Halcón, un explorador blanco amigo de los pieles rojas, sitian el fuerte donde están encerradas para intentar rescatarlas.
Deerslayer
Novel
Chingachgook, son of the chief of the Delaware Indian tribe and faithful friend of Hawkeye the Deerslayer is raised by his tribe after being orphaned.
The Spy
Novel
An American agent exchanges places in prison with a condemned British officer and brother of a woman he greatly admires and goes to the gallows.
The Deerslayer
Novel
Wah-Ta-Wah, or Hist, the lady-love of Chingachgook, a Delaware chief, has been captured by the warlike Hurons. Chingachgook asks the aid of Deerslayer, a white man brought up among the Indians, in rescuing her, and. the two men arrange to meet at Lake Otsego, then called Glimmerglass. Deerslayer sets out for the meeting place, accompanied by Hurry Harry March, a trapper, who acts as his guide.