Deerslayer

Arthur Wellin's German Leatherstocking, 1920: Emil Mamelok as Deerslayer, Béla Lugosi as Chingachgook, Cooper's forest filmed in a Berlin woods. Luna-Film. Lugosi, years from Dracula, already a profile in a wig. It is a European western before the word, and the Iroquois are a German idea of America. Released in the U.S. by Selznick in 1923.