Saturday, November 18, 2023

A MORMON MAID (1917)
























Directed by: Robert Z. Leonard
Starring: Mae Murray, Frank Borzage, Hobart Bosworth, Edythe Chapman, Noah Beery Sr, Richard Henry Cummings

68 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Set in the 1840s during the Mormon migration westward, this film introduces a young woman named Dora and her family as they travel west. After being saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community, the family joins their wagon train traveling to Utah. Throughout the film, Dora is pursued by two men, one a recent convert to the church and the other a scheming elder with multiple wives. Dora's mother ends up killing herself due to her revulsion towards polygamy, leaving Dora to consider her own future and the man she loves. The elder is a former apostle of the church and is determined to have Dora as his sixth wife. After refusing to marry him, Dora eventually ends up killing the old man as he tries to capture her for his own. To summarize, the plot of this film explores the implications of Dora's rejecting becoming a polygamist wife.

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