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Brigham Young

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Duration:
114 min | 113 min (FMC Library Print) | 114 min (copyright length)
Genres:
Biography | History | Romance | Western
IMDB rate:
6.5
Director:
Henry Hathaway
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Country: USA
Release Date: 1940-09-27
Filming Locations: Century Ranch, Malibu Creek State Park - 1925 Las Virgenes Road, Calabasas, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Chief John Big Tree
Chief John Big Tree
Brigham Young
Tyrone Power
Jonathan Kent
Linda Darnell
Zina Webb - The Outsider
Dean Jagger
Brigham Young
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)
Fuzzy Knight
Pete
Dickie Jones
Henry Kent
Selmer Jackson
Caleb Kent - Jonathan' Father
Frederick Burton
Mr. Webb - Zina's Father
Arthur Aylesworth
Jim Bridger
Davison Clark
Johnson
Claire Du Brey
Emma Smith
Tully Marshall
Judge
Dick Rich
Mob Leader Whipping Mr. Kent
Ralph Dunn
Jury Foreman
Edwin Maxwell
Another Mob Leader
Edmund MacDonald
Elder
George Melford
John Taylor
Russell Simpson
U.S. Army Major
Paul E. Burns
Man with California Gold News (uncredited)
Edmund Elton
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Jody Gilbert
Stout Woman Who Can't Swim (uncredited)
William Haade
Skeptic (uncredited)
Herbert Heywood
Jokester at Chronicle Notice (uncredited)
Cammilla Johnson
Little Girl (uncredited)
Cullen Johnson
Boy in Covered Wagon (uncredited)
Payne B. Johnson
Boy in Covered Wagon (uncredited)
David Kirkland
Elder (uncredited)
Frank LaRue
Sheriff (uncredited)
Charles Frederick Lindsley
Trailer Narrator (uncredited)
Murdock MacQuarrie
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Louis Mason
Man Laughing at Joke (uncredited)
Charles Middleton
Mob Member (uncredited)
Philip Morris
Mob Member (uncredited)
Imboden Parrish
Man (uncredited)
Ruth Robinson
Discouraged Mormon (uncredited)
John Roy
(uncredited)
Frank Shannon
Second Man with California Gold News (uncredited)
Lee Shumway
Mob Member (uncredited)
Harry Tyler
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Eddy Waller
an with California Gold News (uncredited)
Cecil Weston
Woman (uncredited)
Blackie Whiteford
Court Spectator (uncredited)
Hank Worden
Mormon Cheering Porter (uncredited)
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Trivia
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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Charles Halton is in studio records/casting call lists for the role of "Prosecutor," but that role was played by Marc Lawrence.
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According to the August 23rd, 1940 edition of The Post-Register, the second city to premiere this film, after the Salt Lake City premiere, was Idaho Falls. It opened at the Paramount Theatre (now the Colonial Theater) on Thursday, August 29th, 1940.
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Goofs
The burial marker was dated June 3, 1845 for Eliza Kent. Talk the next day was about the gold discovery in California. Some Mormon men working for mill operator James Marshall had been in a group landing on the west coast. The day reported for the discovery was January 24, 1848.
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Eliza Kent's tomb "wheel" shows she died in 1843 on the trek west. But Joseph Smith did not die until 1844 and the saints did not leave Nauvoo until 1846.
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Quotes
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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Joseph Smith: Perhaps it's time to show a different kind of courage... and do something besides being killed for what we believe.
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Brigham Young: The law? What law? The law that let's a pack of scoundrels come in here and hunt us down like wild animals, burn our homes, ruin our crops, arrest our leader on trumped-up charges and then look the other way when a mob breaks in and murders him? If they call that law, let 'em keep it. We don't want any more of it!
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Photos from cast
Brian Donlevy Chief John Big Tree
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