Released:
1917-04-21

Overview:
This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community traveling to Utah. They join the wagon train. Dora is pursued by two men, one a recent convert, the other a scheming elder with a stable of wives. The Mormon elder wants her in his harem. When the mother kills herself from revulsion toward polygamy, the daughter must consider her own future and the man she loves. One of Mae Murray's few surviving films, this was intended by Robert Leonard to be a thoughtful drama about the goods and evils of Mormonism, but today it is generally considered pure anti-Mormon propaganda.

Director:
Robert Z. Leonard

Runtime:
1h 8min

Genre:
History, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Mae Murray
  as
  Dora
• 
  Frank Borzage
  as
  Tom Rigdon
• 
  Hobart Bosworth
  as
  John Hogue
• 
  Edythe Chapman
  as
  Nancy Hogue
• 
  Noah Beery
  as
  Darius Burr