Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans - False Witness

Canada 1957
produced by
Sigmund Neufeld, Leon Fromkess (executive) for Normandie Productions, Canadian Television Corporation
directed by Sam Newfield
starring John Hart, Lon Chaney jr, Rodney Bunker, Charles Jarrot, William Walsh, Donald Gerrard, Frederick Diehl, Margaret Griffin, Sid Brown, John Paris
written by Louis Stevens, based on characters created by James Fenimore Cooper

TV-series
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans, Last of the Mohicans, Hawkeye, Deerslayer

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, the army payroll is robbed with great regularity, & those delivering it are regularly killed. So Colonel Courtney (William Walsh) has the idea of sending Hawkeye (John Hart) & Chingachgook (Lon Chaney jr) to the middle of nowhere, to manage the trading post (which pretty much means they become storeclerks), Soon they have found a bad guy in Sam Martin (Frederick Diehl), but have no real proof against him. So Hawkeye comes up with the plan to set up a trap with the next payroll messengers coming through. But the trap doesn't work, as Sam MArtin hasn't been idle & planted conclusive evidence on Jim Foster (Donald Gerrard), who has already been established as a good guy, but with the evidence even Hawkeye & Chingachgook have to have himarrested, even if they know better. The payroll, consequently, is not robbed, since this would shift suspicion from Foster.

So Hawkeye does what everybody with no new ideas would do: He sets the same trap again a few days later, & this time it springs on Foster & his gang, Martin is released, & Hawkeye & Chingachgook give up their job at the trading post ...

Hawkeye & Chingachgook as store clerks, Chingachgook refusing to sell firewater to Indians (just picture it, Lon Chaney jr, a self confessed drinker - & he looks it - for most of his life, refusing alcohl to anyone), Chingachgook sleeping on the job ... all of this might sound unintentionally funny (& it is), but in total, this episode is (again) rather boring than anything else.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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