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27 September 1940 (USA)
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The true story of the famous Mormon leader, Brigham Young and his battle to transport his people across...
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Trial
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It's inaccuracies aren't that inaccurate
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Tyrone Power | ... | Jonathan Kent | |
| Linda Darnell | ... | Zina Webb - The Outsider | |
| Dean Jagger | ... | Brigham Young | |
| Brian Donlevy | ... | Angus Duncan | |
| Jane Darwell | ... | Eliza Kent | |
| John Carradine | ... | Porter Rockwell | |
| Mary Astor | ... | Mary Ann Young | |
| Vincent Price | ... | Joseph Smith | |
| Jean Rogers | ... | Clara Young | |
| Ann E. Todd | ... | Mary Kent (as Ann Todd) | |
| Willard Robertson | ... | Heber Kimball | |
| Moroni Olsen | ... | Doc Richards | |
| Marc Lawrence | ... | Prosecutor | |
| Stanley Andrews | ... | Hyrum Smith | |
| Frank M. Thomas | ... | Hubert Crum (as Frank Thomas) |
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Brigham Young: Frontiersman (UK) (USA) (promotional title)
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113 min (FMC Library Print) | 114 min (copyright length)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Moroni Olsen was the only principal cast member who was a Mormon. Dean Jagger was not a member of that church when he portrayed its leader, but he did join some 32 years later.
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Brigham Young:
Indians can't be any worse than some Christians I know. But just the same, until we find a little more about them, we mean to trust in you, Lord, and keep our powder dry.
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Featured in Religulous (2008)
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Come, Come Ye Saints
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As another LDS viewer, I also like the film and find its hollywoodization of facts far less disturbing than say those of Stone's JFK. That said, I feel inclined to re-correct three facts that another LDS viewer pointed out. 1) While Joseph Smith was falsely imprisoned many times during his life, at the time of his murder he was under arrest, pending trial, for an offense he DID commit -- namely his ordering the destruction of the press of an opposition newspaper in Nauvoo. 2) While the slender 2/3rds majority of Nauvoo mormons did side with Brigham after Joseph's murder, roughly a third did not and scattered to the winds. And the issue of succession was by no means decided upon Joseph's death. It was nip and tuck, with several contenders vying for the crown, until Brigham's legendary 'immaculate impersonation' speech at conference. 3) I thought Vincent Price's portrayal of Joseph Smith was pretty good -- charismatic and visionary, somewhat other-worldly, but what do you expect.