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27 September 1940 (USA) morePlot:
The true story of the famous Mormon leader, Brigham Young and his battle to transport his people across... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Powerful film, but Ty is just in it for box office moreCast
(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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113 min (FMC Library Print) | 114 min (copyright length)Country:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)Fun Stuff
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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 Church's leader, but he did join some 32 years later. moreQuotes:
Mary Ann Young: You're dead set against California, aren't you?Brigham Young: You know human nature. Take a crowd of people to a place of milk and honey and in six months time, they won't be worth shooting.
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This is a wonderful movie about the struggle of the Mormons and their final settlement in Salt Lake, Utah. The beginning and the ending are especially powerful, and the message is one we all have to be reminded of - God doesn't talk, but he communicates, if we would only listen. As I am writing this in the midst of the horrors going on in New Orleans and the surrounding area due to Katrina, I was especially moved by the Mormons having to leave everything behind and move on after Joseph Smith was assassinated. People came to this country to escape religious persecution, and yet they could not. The struggle of the Mormons to cross the country, the cost in lives, the hardship they suffered was truly awe-inspiring, demonstrating their tremendous strength. As far as the actual beliefs of Mormons, this is not heavily gone into, and polygamy is mentioned but is not a centerpiece of the film at all.
The cast is top-notch, though others who have commented know more about the actual characters and can talk about how true the portrayals were. But as actors, Dean Jagger, Mary Astor, Brian Donlevy, John Carradine, Jane Darwell all do excellently with the script they were given.
Though the film could have easily stood on its own (and certainly does today) Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell were added to the cast to get the crowds into the movie theaters to see a film about the Mormons. Power is magnificently handsome as a young Mormon, and Darnell, as Zina, is not a Mormon but stays on with the family after her father is killed. Power does not have much to do until the end of the film, when he has a big scene, and Darnell (still a teenager at the time of the filming) has even less, though they make a lovely couple. Their fate is left unclear regarding her conversion, and one does wonder about the polygamy in their case. You can't beat either one for eye candy, however.