A Mormon Maid (1917)
1917 · Silent film · 68 min · dir. Robert Z. Leonard
- History
- Drama
Synopsis
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…
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Details
- Director
- Robert Z. Leonard
- Writer
- Paul West
- Cinematography
- Charles Rosher
- Studio
- Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company
- Released
- 1917-04-21
- Running time
- 68 minutes
Cast & crew
Robert Z. Leonard Director
Mae Murray
Frank Borzage
Hobart Bosworth
Edythe Chapman
Noah Beery
Richard Cummings
