Wallace Beery
Magua
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Synopsis
During the French and Indian War, an approaching attack places a British fort and the people travelling toward it in danger. Uncas carries a warning through contested territory. Alliances, personal loyalties and attraction complicate a journey shaped by imperial conflict.
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Inspirations
James Fenimore Cooper's novel provides the fictional adventure within a historical war. Clarence Brown took over directing after Maurice Tourneur was injured, and both are associated with the finished film.
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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.
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Availability checked on September 10, 2026.
Photograph credit
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- Wallace Beery — MGM studio photographer · Public domain
- Barbara Bedford — Nelson Evans (6 June 1889 - 17 October 1922) · Public domain
- Lillian Hall — Unknown photographer · Public domain
- Alan Roscoe — Unknown author · Public domain
